how many and why

This group is very intersting and informative.

Some of you regulars must have a lot of phones/contracts/sims, based on your
replies.

Why do you have so many, and what do you do with them all ?

> Some of you regulars must have a lot of phones/contracts/sims, based on your
> replies.
> Why do you have so many, and what do you do with them all ?

I think i've had 4 in total since I first got one back in the very
late 90's;

Nokia 5110
Mode of failure: battery failed, replaced, phone became intermittently
"crashy". Traded in for the V600.

Nokia 1100 (a replacement for the SIM from the 5110 which later became
a spare)
Mode of failure: battery failed, phone would cut off within seconds of
a call

Motorola V600 (two of)
Mode of failure: battery failed, phone would cut off within seconds of
a call, phone became intermittently "crashy" (refuse to charge /
locking up / corrupted display until rebooted). Sat on the table until
I can be bothered to recycle it properly.

Nokia 2630
Mode of failure: None, but my first handset of this phone was replaced
due to complete firmware lockup

We're also in possession of a "donated" Samsung D900 as a replacement
for the second V600.

BOFH wrote:
> This group is very intersting and informative.
>
> Some of you regulars must have a lot of phones/contracts/sims, based on your
> replies.
>
> Why do you have so many, and what do you do with them all ?

My personal phone, which I also use for my political stuff.
My work phone, which is reimbursed and so requires separate billing
My partner's phone, which is in a Family group with my phone so we pay
nothing to call each other
Stepson 1 phone & Stepson 2 phone, both PAYG, they get £10 a month
top-ups and so are also in the Family plan, so they can always phone us
Patner's PAYG for agency incoming calls (she gets a lot of 'cold' calls
which we want to control)

Err, that's it.

"BOFH" <spamtrap99@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
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> This group is very intersting and informative.
>
> Some of you regulars must have a lot of phones/contracts/sims, based on
> your replies.
>
> Why do you have so many, and what do you do with them all ?

I have a

Nokia 5800
Nokia E71
Samsung D880
Samsung D980
Samsung i780
"Chinese" Duel SIM iClone
Sagem "Vodafone Branded" Phone
Nokia 1100
Ericsson T39m
and a 3 USB internet dongle

All working, all switched on, all with working SIMs in!

Oh and my notebook has a slot for a SIM card - and has one in.

On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 22:14:10 +0100, "BOFH"
<spamtrap99@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

>This group is very intersting and informative.
>
>Some of you regulars must have a lot of phones/contracts/sims, based on your
>replies.
>
>Why do you have so many, and what do you do with them all ?

I've currently got three running.

1) iPhone 3G on O2 - this is my phone and contract (although I get a
30% discount on the tariff as my employer has a lot of handsets with
O2) - occasionally used for 'unofficial' tethering in an emergency.
2) O2 SIM - this is my work SIM, but I divert all calls to my work
extension or when I'm away it bounces to my iPhone.
3) T-Mobile web'n'walk SIM in an O2 E160 dongle - this is used at work
(which has decent 3G T-Mobile coverage) for my MacBook Pro. Costs
£5/mo and my MacBook Pro created an ad-hoc WiFi network so that a
select few people can use the connectivity for sites/entertainment
when they don't want it logged on the company account. This has also
been used at home when O2 Home Broadband went down for a weekend as a
decent stop-gap (limited to 45Kb/sec 360kB/sec)
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