work this out if you can!!!!!!!!

[nokiahell]

a friend of mine had a nokia 6150 that was blocked(imei) talking about 4 years ago back in the days when it wasnt easy to solve it was only blocked on orange so we unlocked it and used it on other networks well he still has this phone and took it on holiday used it everything was ok I mean this phone is just a back up phone dont really worry about it if you get my drift when he returned from holiday abroad he put a orange chip in it and hey presto it now works on every network how strange!!
please dont say why didnt we just change the imei ages ago cause we really aint bothered bout an old 6150

[bobl]

he put a orange chip

Orange sim yeh?

Very freaky incident, maybe Orange updated their blocked IMEI database in the meanwhile, or some how it was removed from Orange's database :)

Btw, why is this in software?

Cheers

Bob

[nokiahell]

bob me made a booboo when posting it so its staying here until it gets moved !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[nokiahell]

bob where i come from we call sims, chips!!!!!!!!!! so you have to ignore the lingo

[cjard]

naturally it helps if you put a location in your profile when asserting "where we come from"

however, owing to the context of your message i think youre fromt he uk. as i am also from the uk, i can assure you that people in the uk do not call SIMs "chips" (unless they are especially ignorant).

:)

[nokiahell]

what im going to tell you now is you have obviously lived up to the usual uk resident i know it all , if you havent got anything constructive to say then go away and annoy somebody else as for comment nobody calls them chips in the uk how the hell would you know have you visited every city within the uk and another thing i and whoever will call them whatever we like because i dont have to listen to your stupid comments people like you just let the side down with there i know everything comments

[Alinus]

chill out boys :)

[nokiahell]

Fair comment to say chill out but people wanna have some respect but as usual theyre very tough behind a keyboard arent they im such an easy going guy but dont take s**t off nobody

[bobl]

I was wondering if this was gonna turn into a war, nice fire fighting Alinus.

Still thinking about the original question though..any other ideas :)?

Cheers

Bob

[nokiahell]

bob
im sure prim and proper will give there 2 pennies worth
BRING IT ON

[DavieB]

/me ducks to avoid the cross fire :cool:

[nokiahell]

ha ha nice one you stay in the trenches!!!!

[ROBO]

:D I'm going to throw in a scatter bomb and confirm that sim's are also known as chip's in this neck of the woods chaps :D

[nokiahell]

ha ha we have someone who also knows them as CHIPS so i rest my case cheers robo

[deek]

i have never heard of them being called chips, but each to there own, i suppose it all means the same at the end of the day!!

[pico]

round here they were called chips till people found out they were called sims.

back to the original question...
um, there wasnt one.
your phones working so who cares..

[wwanthony]

A while back people were putting chips into phones to enable the handset to make unlimited free calls, it was a phillips handset in particular if i remember correctly.

People in my area used to call these phones 'chipped' so maybe as this crime was massly pulicised, people picked up the term for calling sims chips from that.

[CheeseOnToast]

All in all,

Chips are found in casino's and chip packets only! never in my whole life have a heard of them being called chips. "Chips" are things which can alter information acordingly where as sims can only store information...

thats my two cents. mmmmmmmmmmmm money...

[phantom2002]

PASS THE SALT !!!! i like chips lol

With regards to the IMEI change perhaps after 4 years the phone gets removed as its no longer valuable !!!!

Its is a 6150 after all hee hee (i do like them honest)


Regards

[nokiahell]

6150 is a good phone but everything is still worth money can you remember the sony mars bar phone someone bought one off my mates carboot stall for 5 pound, as for the chips saga what the hell we call it what we like i suppose, i think the thing you have to remember is everyone has an opinion and we should respect those opinions

[sk3done]

just my two piece tho i call sims SIMS of course just let me guess that you live in essex somewere coz that is a very essex saying

they all bl00dy say chips round these parts (along with 10million other non-sencical saying

(fx:skedone throws beehive in room)

[phantom2002]

as long as its "cheap as chips" !!!
Regards