Technology by Jacob Dybala

If you are looking at selling your Palm Treo and getting the most for it you might want to consider unlocking your phone. Typically when you purchase a cell phone, the company that sold you the phone (ex: Cingular) ‘locked’ the phone before you bought it, so you can only use it on their network. This means that you can’t use your phone on any other network, even if you change the SIM (which is an abbreviation for Subscriber Identity Module) card. The SIM card is the little piece of plastic that identifies your phone to the cellular network. Changing your SIM card to have your phone work on another network is useful especially if you want to travel to another country and want to buy a pre-paid SIM card so you can have cell phone access without roaming charges. It also increasing the phone’s resale price. Check out http://600unlock.com/ for your Palm Treo 600, http://650unlock.com/ for Palm Treo 650 and http://680unlock.com/ for Palm Treo 680 smartphones.

Update (2008-08-11) : Check out this site for cell phone parts (original replacements parts) and unlocking of all phones: http://www.cellphone-repair-shop.com/products.php?cat=44

It is 6:00am and I am still in bed. I went to sleep at 2:30am so you can imagine how I felt when my cell phone rang. Sometimes I wish cell phones were never invented but then my Palm Treo 600 would have to go as well I pick up the phone and find out that the system is down. I wonder why the old Novell NetWare box (3.11) running Classic by DCD (which is now owned by Epicor ) couldn’t wait another hour before it went down. Anyway, I get up, stop at Dunkin’ Donuts and I’m on my way to work. The system has gone down so many times that I do not even get worried anymore. It has become a routine (every 2-5 months). The only thing that I do not like is that that company in particular starts work 2 hours earlier than I do and they will call me if the system is down. That is how it is supposed to be, I guess. I am just tankful that the night shift does not call me to let me know that the server went down So I finally arrived at work, opened the server room and pressed "F1 to continue" as the computer asked me to do. My job is done!

PS: The mentioned system was officially retired in May of 2006 or serving us well for almost 14 years! According to the server logs, the system was first powered on on June 13th, 1992.