Tag: HKV

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.

Sadly, it only lasted six months, so I reverted back to iPhones. How time flies, it is now 2016 and I wrote the above article in 2008, how things change. Oh Poo Poo, and I still buy gadgets..