if you’re lacking anything interesting to do with a sim reader try deleting/wiping the phone dialing history and see if you can still look up the last dialed numbers via the sim. iphones, for example, act this way.

Posted at 10:25 pm on Aug 21st, 2008 by ladyada

i bought and assembled one at HOPE but my blackberry doesnt store anything on the sim. A $20 at&t go phone from walmart allowed me to read the phonebook but the txtmsgs werent able to be read

Posted at 11:19 pm on Aug 21st, 2008 by illwill

Unless you’re really keen on soldering, it’s cheaper and quicker to buy one of the generic USB SIM readers. I got one from eBay for £1.50 ($3 or so). It just appears as a serial device in Linux (ttyUSB*), and it works fine with pysimreader.

Like the author, though, I was quickly left wondering, ‘now what?’

Posted at 2:45 am on Aug 22nd, 2008 by Paul Battley

See, i live in belgium and we can keep our simcards when we switch mobiles phones (its a law so that you dont need to sign a contract or get a additional monthly fee to use the phone we have free operator choice)

I know someone that has cloned his card many times and has unlocked various blocked features, some operators even store some numbers youre not even supposed to be able to call.

Posted at 2:49 am on Aug 22nd, 2008 by Sharky

There actually more than one SIM system/version I understand and many readers are not completely compatible with all versions, I’m not on the up on the details but I saw it mentioned on the packaging of a reader once, so perhaps there’s more on those smartphone cards than this reader can show? Just a thought.

Posted at 11:25 am on Aug 22nd, 2008 by Wwhat

i bought a memory card reader from micro center and it had a sim card reader … only $20
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Posted at 9:11 am on Aug 23rd, 2008 by alex mccown

3G SIM cards out in Australia are significantly different from the GSM ones we’ve had for years now. Different carriers and such all use different tech with different encryption on board, etc.’

And uh yeah. DealExtreme has these and I haven’t bought one cause there’s not much to do with them. Probably someone will come up with something then overnight they’ll be out of stock.

Posted at 12:16 pm on Aug 23rd, 2008 by TheKhakinator