A Handy Little Item !!

intheknow

Never thought It would happen to me, Had same phone sim card for 5 years, nearly 200 phone numbers etc on it...Lost My phone on friday night..Disaster !
My aunt gave me a sim card reader for christmas, I left it on a shelf till thursday night, Was looking for something else and opened it, copied all the data to my pc, Saturday went in to vodafone who gave me a new sim card with my old number went home and put all my numbers on my new sim. Well worth the money, they are very cheap looks something like this.........

"12 IN 1 SUPER SIM CARD READER WRITER MOBILE PC" <Link removed. Deal with it.>

Was going to post this to mobile section of boards but thought more folk would see it here....Very handy little gadget...Probably available in shops.

KdjaCL

I have about 4000 of them in work, Sandisk delivered them to my job by mistake.

handy things to have if you use them.


kdjac

intheknow

KdjaCL wrote:

I have about 4000 of them in work, Sandisk delivered them to my job by mistake.

handy things to have if you use them.


kdjac

I smell a business opportunity here for you somewhere !!

brianthebard

Shill?

Thrill

How much are they in the shops?

intheknow

o2 do one http://www.o2online.ie/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/O2AccessoryView?accessoryId=10036&storeId=10001&langId=-1&catalogId=10001&flowType=O&fromIndex=

Ruu_Old

Aye looks like Vodafone have something of that nature here also.

Rb

KdjaCL wrote:

I have about 4000 of them in work, Sandisk delivered them to my job by mistake.

handy things to have if you use them.


kdjac

Can I have one?

InFront

pretty excellent tool for €7. I have all my phone numbers written out on paper though (should have been a boy scout)

Thrill

Thats cheap. Must get me one.

I have all my numbers down on paper as well. Trouble is, i dont know where i put the damn thing.

aidan_walsh

rb_ie wrote:

Can I have one?

Me too please, if they're going

Mossy Monk

A gadget that could be of some actual use.

humanji

I was getting a new phone from O2 and had to get my numbers over to a new sim. The guy in the shop slaps it into that thingy, copies the stuff over and pops the new sim into my new phone. I get home and find out that only a couple of my numbers copied over

Luckily, I follow InFronts' line of thinking and keep all my numbers written down (I was a Cub!).

Cormic

Nokia PC suite does the whole thing as well. Just download it and connect to your phone using bluetooth or IR. It is not much good if you don't have bluetooth or IR.

weeder

aidan_walsh wrote:

Me too please, if they're going

and me aswell sure

Sam Vimes

Cormic wrote:

Nokia PC suite does the whole thing as well. Just download it and connect to your phone using bluetooth or IR. It is not much good if you don't have bluetooth or IR.

it does all the stuff a sim card reader does and a lot more. wouldn't bother with one tbh

_Kaiser_

Cormic wrote:

Nokia PC suite does the whole thing as well. Just download it and connect to your phone using bluetooth or IR. It is not much good if you don't have bluetooth or IR.

You can get the USB-phone data cables on ebay for only few quid. I wouldn't buy any of the (ridiculously overpriced) accessories in shops here.

:|

I got one of these just today for free

greglo23

anyone with a sony-ericsson phone can also use this free opensource program to backup. its far and away better than the crap supplied with the phone. http://tinyurl.com/5xbde. it works with serial , usb and bluetooth. it also installs phonetools on your phone so you can remote control your pc over bluetooth.

s8n

Original link removed, so here it is....

http://phones.listings.ebay.ie/Sim-Cards_Adaptors_W0QQsacatZ43805QQsocmdZListingItemList

robinph

What are the other 11 things that it does to make it a "12 in 1 sim card reader" then?

Miguel_Sanchez

humanji wrote:

I was getting a new phone from O2 and had to get my numbers over to a new sim. The guy in the shop slaps it into that thingy, copies the stuff over and pops the new sim into my new phone. I get home and find out that only a couple of my numbers copied over

On a lot of phones the SIM only holds so many numbers and after that the numbers are saved to the phone itself so copying the SIM won't bring them across.

Interestingly enough when I put my old SIM in a new phone recently a load of really old numbers that I had deleted years ago started coming up even though the SIM was supposedly full it was still holding lots of numbers that it was supposed to have deleted.