Cell phone questions

Does anyone know if it's OK/legal/felony to clone the SIM from your primary phone and use it in your backup phone? Both phones would never be on at the same time. As indicated, one phone is purely for backup purposes if the primary fails.

Edited by wallythacker 2006-01-02 10:15 AM

what do you mean by cloning your SIM?

i use the same SIM in two phones, bsquare phh is the main one, t39 is the backup. isn't that enough, if you don't want them to be on at the same time anyway?

Yep, cloning SIMs, just like ghosting a disk. My Tungsten has a flimsy door that covers the SIM. It's known to break if it gets used too much. My other phone, a very basic Motorola 333 is already suffering from popping off the back cover.


I have some spare SIMs so I might as well clone, install and forget. The SIM reader/writers I sourced one day were $6 or so, not expensive.

I didn't know the bsquare was a phone. I learn things here everyday.

wow never heard about cloning sim's before. i doubt it is legal lol.

yes the bsquare is a phone and is very nice. sorry it is only dual band

I like the bSquare... It has CE .net and if it were cheaper, I would look at it..

it is cheap enough at 180$ or less!! beware the phone module wont work in the US...

What is the screen resolution?
EDIT: Never mind.. It looks like a great H/PC

Edited by tenjeangosi 2006-01-02 7:41 PM

real VGA

Monica, pretty interesting eh? You learned something new here today.

Was the bsquare ever marketed in the US? Or is it locked to Vodafone or something? I ask because my crummy 333 is a dual band phone and works fine over here.

Maybe the bsquare needs to be unlocked to work in NA.

guess what even i don't know everything hehehe.

the bsquare is unlocked.

afaik it was never really marketed outside the UK and germany (under a different name in the latter country).

i don't know much of the gsm bands in canada, in the US the bsquare cannot be used as a phone because of the different frequencies. it works on 900/1800 and thats called dual band here. the US is totally different (no 900 or 1800). but my t39 is triband (900/1800/1900) so it works in the US too.

what are the freq's in canada?

Edited by cmonex 2006-01-03 1:15 AM

I believe Canada has 1900/850

My 333 appears to be gsm 800/1900.
My Palm is quad band gsm (forget the bands.) I think a bsquare would work here. I might look into one. Where a good site with pictures and text?

n/m. I found a site with good info. Why's the bsq sell so cheap when it specs as good as a sig III, except maybe te keyboard is substandard.

Who's selling them for $180? They're worth a further look.

Edited by wallythacker 2006-01-03 5:33 AM