>> Well, I don't know about the microscope, but I really like my Nokia >> 5190. [...] > You can't get anything that primitive here, all the phones are [...]
You can't get the 5190 _new_ here either. But they're available. My current one is a Frankenphone - my old one I accidentally ran through the laundry, which wouldn't've been a problem except that the battery was on it at the time, so everything died. A friend gave me his old one, which got knocked around a busy street and worked fine if you didn't mind a blank display. I swapped displays and it turned out the display died in the laundry too. A different friend then found an ebay auction with a 5190 and two other old Nokia phones, and won it for me (something like $15) ; turns out the displays are swappable between the 5190 and at least one of the others, so I now have two working 5190s (though one is provider-crippled, fortunately to my current provider). Also, one day it was rattling when it came out of my pocket. Still working, just rattling. Upon opening it up, I found a surface-mount capacitor had come loose. Since I don't work with surface-mount parts, I didn't have a direct replacement, but I managed to find an axial-lead cap that fit physically - though just barely. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML [email protected] / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
