HOW ABOUT A DUAL SIM PHONE?
December 2nd 2009 00:00
Maybe inefficiency started it all. You know, like you have this mobile phone company which only has a good signal in this neck of the woods and another provider that monopolizes the signal in an area the size of a pea where you happen to be and the only choice you have, since you are going to be there for quite a while, is either stay incommunicado or subscribe to the company that can give you a line to the outside world.
Anyway, the way people communicate these days? That would be like giving you no choice at all!
So, your next choices will be: either to buy another phone (which means you will be carrying two mobile phones), or buy one cell phone that supports two sims (lines) from two different companies. That is, if you don’t like the idea of changing sims every time you go to an area served by another cell phone signal provider – other than the one you subscribed to.
That would mean you have to buy your mobile phone unit at a higher (full) price, because you are practically waving your right to a subsidized phone if you get an open line.
Unless, you go for a Chinese imitation mobile phone that do not really perform half as well as the original units. Yep, the imitation phones remain substandard despite the fact that practically almost everything is now made in China (maybe even the cloth that was used to make your country’s flag).
Oh, but we are not really going to talk about quality here just the wisdom of having a phone that supports dual sims.
See, I was just in this trip with a co-worker who uses that kind of phone (Chinese imitation phone with a dual sim). At the beginning, we both thought it was cool to have a cell phone like that. He was only carrying one phone (unlike me who was carrying two), it wasn’t expensive (while I have to pay the price of two mobile phones) and he is always within a signal area of at least one cell phone signal provider (just like me).
And he enjoyed several other advantages over me like: he only had to maintain one cell phone, carry one battery charger, charge only one phone, he didn’t have to synchronize the contacts in his phones, etc., etc.
It really looked and sounded smart to be carrying just one cell phone with everything you need in it. It also has features like: camera (1.2 megapixels), media player, FM radio, voice recorder… you name it!
But then, one day, its microphone refused to function. Just like that. You know, you call the phone and, when it was answered, whoever is using it will hear you but whatever he/she says you will not hear. The microphone was busted. What did I say?
We are not talking about the quality of the phone, right? So, you get my point. You only have one phone, it has everything in it, then it refused to work, it got stolen or you simply lost it. What have you got left?
Nada. Zilch.
Everything gone!
It was an imitation phone, I hope you have a backup copy of your contacts in there somewhere. Maybe in your laptop or desktop computer.
Anyway, the way people communicate these days? That would be like giving you no choice at all!
So, your next choices will be: either to buy another phone (which means you will be carrying two mobile phones), or buy one cell phone that supports two sims (lines) from two different companies. That is, if you don’t like the idea of changing sims every time you go to an area served by another cell phone signal provider – other than the one you subscribed to.
That would mean you have to buy your mobile phone unit at a higher (full) price, because you are practically waving your right to a subsidized phone if you get an open line.
Unless, you go for a Chinese imitation mobile phone that do not really perform half as well as the original units. Yep, the imitation phones remain substandard despite the fact that practically almost everything is now made in China (maybe even the cloth that was used to make your country’s flag).
Here's an imitation phone. But please, don't forget, those Chinese guys do the original units too. Okay? Sub-contracted to them by the patent owners
Oh, but we are not really going to talk about quality here just the wisdom of having a phone that supports dual sims.
See, I was just in this trip with a co-worker who uses that kind of phone (Chinese imitation phone with a dual sim). At the beginning, we both thought it was cool to have a cell phone like that. He was only carrying one phone (unlike me who was carrying two), it wasn’t expensive (while I have to pay the price of two mobile phones) and he is always within a signal area of at least one cell phone signal provider (just like me).
And he enjoyed several other advantages over me like: he only had to maintain one cell phone, carry one battery charger, charge only one phone, he didn’t have to synchronize the contacts in his phones, etc., etc.
It really looked and sounded smart to be carrying just one cell phone with everything you need in it. It also has features like: camera (1.2 megapixels), media player, FM radio, voice recorder… you name it!
But then, one day, its microphone refused to function. Just like that. You know, you call the phone and, when it was answered, whoever is using it will hear you but whatever he/she says you will not hear. The microphone was busted. What did I say?
We are not talking about the quality of the phone, right? So, you get my point. You only have one phone, it has everything in it, then it refused to work, it got stolen or you simply lost it. What have you got left?
Nada. Zilch.
Everything gone!
It was an imitation phone, I hope you have a backup copy of your contacts in there somewhere. Maybe in your laptop or desktop computer.
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