Fun facts about mobile phones…
Posted on | May 20, 2010 | No Comments
…that a lot of people on the street don’t seem to know.
- You can pretty much read and send email on any phone – even the cheap ones. It’s not anything unique to a Blackberry or a smartphone.
- You should NOT send mobile email through the “Nokia Email” or “Nokia Messaging” system, because it is EVIL. Here’s more on that. I believe this only concerns Symbian OS S60 5th edition phones, however, or later models, because the messaging application in S60 3rd edition phones was still safe.
- When you go to another country, if you don’t get yourself a local SIM, you will be paying whatever rates your operator’s partner in that country has set for these sorts of occasions. Quite often though you may have a data transfer contract at home that lets you download data up to a certain point without extra costs, your operator’s partner in a foreign country will NOT have such a contract with you and can charge whatever it likes. They can also charge per connection taken rather than by download rate.
- There may be applications or features on your phone that contact the Internet on their own, such as A-GPS or Nokia Messaging (*hiss*). -> Huge bills when you use your SIM abroad. (This is why you should unlock your phone and get a new SIM when you go abroad, with terms you approve of, and also it’s one of the reasons why you should Know Your Phone.)
- If you have a network-locked phone, received when you made your contract with your current operator, your operator is obligated to unlock it after the time specified in your contract has run out. After that you can use it with any sim you like.
- Judging by this BBC article about the Nexus, even Gartner analysts don’t seem to realize that pretty much every phone is available as a more expensive unlocked version, even in the UK, which is nuttier than most for locked phones – in a lot of countries, locking phones to a single operator isn’t even legal. One exception I know of is the iPhone, which is often available only as a locked phone or if you purchase a contract at the same time (depending on legislation).
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(Repost from my private blog.)
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