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Friday ramblings: Battery covers and SIM card holders

hartti | 15 June, 2007 22:07

There are almost as many battery cover lock mechanisms and SIM card holder mechanisms in Nokia phones as there are different phone models. I might be exaggerating a little, but still the variety is astounding. As I have to change SIM cards between phones almost daily (and sometimes even more often), I have also become intimately familiar on how to open the battery cover, remove the battery, and replace the SIM card. Trust me. It is not always a walk in a park. 

To start with there are two models (ok, there might be more, but I only remember these two) which allow you to remove the SIM card without removing the battery first. Nokia 6111 and N93. Pretty cool (if you are geek), but quite unnecessary feature for a normal user with one SIM card and phone only.

On other phones you need to remove the battery cover and battery before being able to change the SIM card. On most of the phones this is really simple. Many phones have these sliding covers, which just require you to press them from one side and slide them open (sometimes finding the sliding direction could require few guesses...).
There are a few challenging ones though. At least N71 and E90 come to mind. They have small, pretty stiff lock buttons which you basically have to press with your fingernail. Unfortunately I am nail-challenged person (in other words nail-biter) so opening these covers is sometimes a frustrating experience.

With my short (non-existing) fingernails I do not even try to use them to take the batteries out. I just hit my other palm with the opened phone and the battery pops out.

The last challenge is getting the SIM card out. This is usually very easy step, but again my short fingernails cause problems on phones, where the SIM card is in a tight place - like in N75. I almost need tweezers (or at least patience) to get the SIM out from this baby.

The best open-the-phone experience? There are many to choose from, but 6131 is close to the top of the list. The battery cover is a easy slider and there is extra room for index finger to take the battery out.

What is your favorite or least favorite phone what comes to battery covers and SIM card holders?

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Re: Friday ramblings: Battery covers and SIM card holders

jack44 | 20/06/2007, 22:53

jack44 My favourite is N93. It's VERY well designed smartphone from hardware perspective (OK, maybe microSD, 3.5mm audio-video and miniUSB with charging feature or GPS on-board would be nice to have in 'next version'). It has SIM hot-swap feature, so one doesn't have to switch the device off which is very cool from my perspective. That's why I wouldn't change it for other device like N93i or even N95!

Re: Friday ramblings: Battery covers and SIM card holders

vincepinto | 10/07/2007, 11:02

It would be extremely useful for businessmen and other frequent travellers if Nokia could implement an external hot-swap SIM card holder, similar to the one used on the TREO 650.

While younger people like having a hot-swap SD card storage slots so that they can easily and frequently change their song list, it's been my obeservation that business people primarily use their data storage cards for data files, so they rarely need to change it. On the other hand, frequent travellers who prefer to use a "destination SIM card" rather than incur expensive international roaming charges, would much rather have a hot-swap SIM card holder.

Perhaps Nokia should introduce hot-swap SIM card holders on their E-Series handsets first, as these are geared to businessmen, while the N-Series should focus more on multimedia flexibility.

Thanks for the opportunity to make a comment.

Re: Friday ramblings: Battery covers and SIM card holders

hartti | 10/07/2007, 20:51

hartti Good point Vince. I'll pass this on to the E-series people for consideration!

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