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on Friday March 14 2014, @01:35PM
from the is-that-the-sound-of-desperation-that-I-hear dept.
from the is-that-the-sound-of-desperation-that-I-hear dept.
skullz writes:
"Hot on the heels of Microsoft easing up access to the Windows Phone OS are rumors of dual Windows / Android phones, able to boot into either OS.
- Huawei Confirms Dual-OS Android-Windows Smartphone
- Huawei Might Launch Dual-OS Android-Windows Phone Handsets Too
The narrative so far is Android for personal use, Windows for BYOD to the office. I can see a company locking down a Windows Phone install so it can connect to Exchange and the company wifi but what would the two OSs share? Contacts and pictures? Would a bit of malware on one OS be isolated from the other?
It used to be that you would dual boot your Windows box with Linux, now that trend has reversed itself for your mobile. How far we have come."
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(Score: 3, Funny) by frojack on Friday March 14 2014, @02:54PM
Someone still stores contacts on a Sim card?
Come on Joe, its not 1998 anymore. Most phones don't even support that, other than for import.
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(Score: 1) by n1 on Friday March 14 2014, @03:34PM
I store mine on SIM+Phone because I assume my phone isn't going to last forever, and it should mean I just get to put the SIM in my next phone and i wont have to fuck around with the contacts, or try and extract the data.
Now i'm sure there are numerous 'smart' ways of storing your contacts which will allow syncing across all your devices. That just seems unnecessary when I only have one phone and storing on SIM should make it transferable and painless when i replace.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Friday March 14 2014, @03:47PM
But when you lose your phone, your sim goes with it.
And when you get a new phone, your old sim isn't going to be the right one for the new phone.
Your carrier MIGHT offer to copy them to the new SIM, but most have dropped this service because its too hard to keep up with, and most new phones don't even offer to store on the sim any more.
The new way, (I'm sure you knew this), is to sync your contacts with "the cloud", either on Google Contacts [google.com] or iCloud, or a couple dozen other similar third party services via Apps.
And, yeah, I fully understand that some people don't like Google or Apple, or Microsoft or Blackberry or their Carrier to have a list of their contacts. You only have to lose all your contacts ONCE to realize the privacy you gain by sim storage is an illusion and not worth the effort. But it is clearly up to you.
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by joekiser on Friday March 14 2014, @04:09PM
The privacy element goes out the window when all of your contacts are using Google / Apple devices and have you in the cloud anyway. I'm sure it is trivial to compile a fairly accurate contact list using this information.
I didn't realize that SIM cards are no longer used to store contacts...I've been on dumbphones for too long, and when I got my Blackberry, I couldn't find the feature.
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(Score: 1) by n1 on Friday March 14 2014, @04:19PM
You are totally correct, should I lose my phone then I have no way of retrieving my phone book, that is indeed a serious issue which I should seek to resolve.
Your experience may be different, being in the US I assume. My sim and phone are not tied to each other, my carrier only provides my SIM. I buy my phones outright and make sure they're unlocked, as such I don't get the latest due to inflated prices of the current generations. I accept most people don't do it this way, but it is at least an option (in the UK) which I have taken up. For me, having a phone that is a year or two out of date, is worth not being signed up to a 2-3 year contract with less service than I currently have now ($25/pm 500minutes, unlimited text, unlimited data - rolling/no contract). I lose out on having 'the best' phone, but i get some freedom.
I am very much behind the times on this so my new phone may not enable me to use the SIM, so your original 1998 comment wasn't misplaced. Things are changing in ways I don't appreciate, but I will have to adapt and some kind of 'sync' will be inevitable.