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Article #218Experience with slim dual SIM holder on T68i
From: Whytoi
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 06:14
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 06:14
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Given the paucity of info on this topic, I took the chance and bought one such unit on eBay for my T68i. It turned out to be from a mail order joint in Singapore and costed me �7.98 inclusive of postage. It arrived 9 days after. I note that our local weekend market also had similar but just not for the T68i and it was $5 more. The slim flexible circuit board/holder was labelled "King of Double Card, GSM, Ultra Slim". It did not state the country of manufacture on the packaging nor on the unit. The unit consisted of a very thin and flexible plastic board which contained two cut-out sockets for the carriers' SIM cards. This in turn was connected by a flexible ribbon to a simulated SIM card which inserts into T68i's SIM socket. The dual SIM holder then folds over via the flexible ribbon connector and is sandwiched underneath the OEM battery in the lower part of the compartment. The fit was not ideal as it caused an obvious 1mm gap on the one side of the phone. I am Not sure if the fit will improve over time as the ribbon gets a better fold crease, but then there's the risk of breaking the surface conductor. I would rate the casing distortion as obvious by look and touch (after being used to the regular feel of the phone in your hand). But it's unlikely to cause any permanent damage. I have thought about grinding down the inner plastic surface of the OEM battery to improve the fit, but I'll leave that to another day when the warranty on my phone expires. Functionally it worked as advertised. By switching the phone off and then back on, I was able to alternately connect with my two carriers. It seemed to work quite reliably for all functions in my short experience (voice, SMS and GPRS/WAP). However, I did note that one needs to take care as to how the holder is positioned under the phone. At one point when I first installed it, I had problems switching between my two SIM card and the phone would just freeze when I tried to power down from one of the carrier's SIM card. This was fixed when I readjusted the position of the holder in the battery bay. I suspect that it may have been related to poor contact/s with that carrier's SIM card. In summary, I'd say it's functional if you are not concerned about cramming an extra piece of electronic inside the battery compartment and the resulting phone casing distortion. I now have my regular work SIM and a prepaid "bargain" SIM for evening calls in my phone, and able to easily switch between the two. Well, hope this little summary can be of assistance to someone who is looking for such info.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 10ae63,ee8351e2f79b76ad,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10ae63,public X-Google-Thread: fb718,ee8351e2f79b76ad,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfb718,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-08-18 23:14:20 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!nntp-relay.ihug.net!ihug.co.nz!abnormal.com!vicpull2.telstra.net!ken-transit.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!news-server.bigpond.net.au!53ab2750!not-for-mail Subject: Experience with slim dual SIM holder on T68i From: Whytoi <whytoi@hotmail.com> Newsgroups: alt.cellular.ericsson,aus.comms.mobile Message-ID: <190820031614105832%whytoi@hotmail.com> Organization: . MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Thoth/1.7.1 (Carbon/OS X) Lines: 44 Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 06:14:10 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 144.132.143.33 X-Complaints-To: abuse@bigpond.net.au X-Trace: news-server.bigpond.net.au 1061273650 144.132.143.33 (Tue, 19 Aug 2003 16:14:10 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 16:14:10 EST