"marvelus" <marvelus@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 23:00:07 GMT, losttheplot@tesco.net wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 17:10:49 -0400, Simon <eagerb@gmail.com> wrote this
>>with
>>the utmost thought:
>>
>>>I have an old (Nokia 6610i) mobile that I want to give to my son to play
>>>some Java games on. Is there a way to stop the phone transmitting /
>>>receiving / trying to get on a network?
>>>
>>>Cheers
>>>
>>>Simon.
>>>
>>>PS the mobile is 'expendable'!
>>
>>Sell the 'phone for as much as you can get for it and put the proceeds
>>towards a cheap game console for him. No need to worry, quite
>>unnecessarily
>>about "radiation" and no chance of him making or receiving any calls.
>>
> and the ability to play some good games. Java sheesh!

I'd let the OP decide if this is sufficient for his/her kid, or if the kid
should get a playstation or something else.

Taking into account that the local networks would not support emergency
calls for a phone without a valid SIM, it would be quite OK to use it
without a SIM or with an invalid SIM (an invalid SIM would cause some
signalling towards the network at each switch on, but this would be
reasonable).

Note that if you disable the receiver, the phone would never transmit
anything. It will only transmit if it finds appropriate network info but
could not do this if the receiver was disabled. However, the phone would
consume less power if it can find a network and stay tuned on that, even if
was there only for emergency calls (the phone does not know that the local
network does not accept emergency calls and would still try to stay tuned on
a cell where an emergency call attempt was possible).