[rescue] OT: free cell phone

[Dave McGuire]

On Tuesday, October 21, 2003, at 01:16 PM, Curtis H. Wilbar Jr. wrote:
> I have a 'rescued' Nokia model 5190 type nsb-1nx cell phone and
> battery for free (will, shipping costs, and say $3 for the time
> and trouble... so not quite 'free').
>
> When I got it a few months or so ago, it still had some charge
> in the battery... so the battery is probably good if charged up
> (it is now drained)... so maybe you just need an extra battery.
>
> This is a GSM ? phone (the ones that take the little 'flash' cards
> with the info on them... there is no 'flash' card in this one, it
> was removed before I got it).
>
> Any interested parties wanting to save this from the trash that
> have some use for it... speak up now....

   You're going to trash a functioning GSM cell phone??

   I will take it if nobody else has.

   Those 'flash' cards are called "SIM"...Subscriber Identification 
Module.  They're essentially ISO smart cards.

        -Dave

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