Another Gadget
I love gadgets and electronics.
HKV HK5000
After years of working for computer manufacturers, and being an Amateur Radio (Radio Ham) enthusiast, (G8YJQ), electronics and gadgets fasinates me.
If it is new, I want it, I want to see how it works, has it any benefit to me.
I may try it once, understand how it works, and then never use the gadget again. But, my curiosity has been satisfied.
Visiting many countries as I do, staying in contact is a must.
With the internet, as long as a WiFi connection (free) is available I can be in contact with others.
With mobile phones, covering nearly every square inch of our planet and beyond, we can stay in touch, sometimes at a high cost, sometimes with a bit of out-of-the-box thinking, cheap calls can be obtained.
One way to get cheap mobile calls is to get a local sim card of the country I am visiting, a local telephone number.
But that means I have to carry two telephones, one for my British mobile, and one for the local country I am visiting.
More holes in my trouser pockets.
Problem solved now.
I came across a mobile phone, the HKV HK5000 Dual Sim Mobile.
The HK5000 allows me to have two sim cards in the same hand unit, and it will operate both, so I can make and receive a phone call from my British telephone number 07973178602, plus my Italian, Turkish, Malaysian or whichever one I wish to insert.
Now I only need to carry one phone.
Forget about the new iPhones, Blackberry, HTC, PDA's smartphones, that do things I personally rarely use, I now have a phone that is practical, two phones in one, that is to say, I can make and receive phone calls easy, does not take up space, and I do not have to remember to charge two phones..
As far as I know u can take any phone and make it a dual phone. They do it like they do sim locks.
So its not a special phone, u can make any phone like it. Also as far as I know, u can not switch on both sims at the same time, correct?
U can insert both of them but can only operate one at a time.
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I have seen advertisements which allows you to cut sim cards down and insert them into a holder which then fits into an existing sim card slot of a standard phone, but how they switch from one card to another I do not know. The HK5000 has two sim card slots, and monitors both cards for incoming calls. When a call comes in, the phone will play a ring tone for that sim card/tele number. After entering a telephone number to call, you have two send/dial buttons, button one for sim card/tele number one, and button two for sim card/tele number two. So yes both sim cards are on at the same time. Yes only one can be operated at the same time, i.e. you cannot call one sim card from the other. But then? Let me experiment. So can you make a NOKIA 6233, a HTC Diamond, an iPhone, a Blackberry into a phone which will accept two different telephone numbers from two different service providers? Please let me know.
Inside a HK5000 showing 2 sim cards
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As per your question, YES, you can make a Nokia, Sony Ericsson or Siemens into a dual sim phone but not a Blackberry or iPhone since their software wouldn't allow it. Plus it is technically not advised to make a normal phone into a dual sim.
The dual sim phones might be useful for convenience reasons but they often may have technical problems, ie. if you want to make a phone from SIM1 and SIM2 has a stronger signal, then the stronger signal can override and you will be charged from SIM2.
Again, if you think, why does Nokia, Sony Erricsson, etc do not manufacture dual sim phones? They can make extra money from it. But they are not very good technically as I said.
Just a word of warning. But ofcourse if it fits your purpose, then fine.
LOL
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Can you bring me one when you come back to London. Thanks.
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i think Chinese dual sim phones are cheap. nice post and nice blog.
http://bestnewphones.blogspot.com
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