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by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 02/14/2013, 12:05am PST |
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I have a cell phone which I switched with one that I had because it has a built-in FM radio. It's a Nokia cell phone, which I bought for $20 because of a tip that someone at T-Mobile told me. All T-Mobile phones, whether contract, prepaid or pay per month, are interchangeable; take any T-Mobile branded phone, pull the sim card and put it in a different T-Moblile branded phone, and the new phone will work on the same terms as the original phone it was in. If you take a prepaid phone, pull a contract phone's sim card and put it in the prepaid one, the prepaid phone is now operating on the contract account.
Unlike TracFone where all phones are prepaid and you can't change that.
But what bothers me is that my goddamn power wheelchair figured out how to slice through the cord on the phone charger; it cut right through it and ripped the end off as if it had a pair of scissors. And while the chair is bad, Nokia is worse. Like those sons-a-bitches at Samsung, their phone uses a non-standard charger. Virtually all cell phones have now standardized on the sub-mini B USB adapter.
Now, your normal USB adapter is a D-shaped plug, that's the B end, the A end is full-size rectangular and plugs into the computer. My cable modem and my SAN network storage device have one of these in addition to an Ethernet port. The mini B adapter is a slightly smaller one, often used on digital cameras and other devices that just don't have the room for a full B socket. Then you get the sub-mini B, which is routinely used on cell phones, MP3 players, and other devices where space is at an extreme premium.
Except for Nokia and Samsung. Samsung uses a wierd large proprietary adapter for power and I think it might even be used as the data cable. Nokia is using a very tiny pin plug for the end of the power supply. So now I have two choices; buy another phone or try and find another adapter for this Nokia, and in all probability I will just have to buy another phone of the same model in order to get the power cord. Always seems like every time I turn around I have to spend $20 to $50 on something, like Virginia's new mandate for electronic filing for all corporate tax returns. I'll explain that in my next message.
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