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No hotswap of microsd, then
No hotswap of microsd, then
Posted Aug 30, 2007 1:35 UTC (Thu) by abartlet (subscriber, #3928)In reply to: No hotswap of microsd, then by smitty_one_each
Parent article: A first look at the OpenMoko Neo 1973
Perhaps this might illustrate the point better:
Sitting in a computer lab back at Uni, one friend asks another: Can I borrow your phone?
But this doesn't mean 'can I charge my phone call to your account', but 'my battery has run out, can I put my SIM in your phone for a moment'. A very useful feature.
(But I think the comment was about hot swapping out the SD card)
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No hotswap of microsd, then
Posted Aug 30, 2007 1:45 UTC (Thu) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]
My friend changes his SIM twice a day. Throw it in the gigantic Blackberry and leash yourself to the office all day, then chuck it into the slick slidey Samsung and head out at night. Obviously you need to power off to do this but batteries and battery covers are just so fiddly. I don't know where he finds the patience.
I would definitely expect to be able to hot-swap the MicroSD card without powering off the phone. This is very useful; I do it all the time on my Dash. Take out the MP3 card and insert the card with all the movies I've been meaning to watch, jam the MP3s back in when I leave the house, etc...
No hotswap of microsd, then
Posted Aug 30, 2007 8:32 UTC (Thu) by ekj (subscriber, #1524) [Link]
Wouldn't it be more reasonable to get a clone of his sim and have one in each phone ?
My phone-provider will even give out clones, charging like $5 and stating explicitly that on some networks, only 1 phone with a given SIM will work at once (usually whichever phone you turn on *last*).
Even if they didn't, it's not as if sim-cloning is horribly hard to get done. To avoid problems I guess if you're using home-brew clones, you'd better make sure to never turn on more than one of the phones simultaneously.
No hotswap of microsd, then