Thread: Reset Nokia 3200

You should be able to contact your service provider and they'll give you an unlock code - I've had to do it a couple of times.

I'm using the ol' 3310 too .

Other than that I can't think of anything else.
Try this though:

http://unlock.nokiafree.org/

Oh I just remembered you can't get into your phone? The above post wasn't much use then. Sorry.

Go to a cell phone shop; they should be able to do it for you.

I never thought of that. Cell phone shop people are cool.


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Why do you call mobiles 'cell phones' in the USA? I gather it's to do with their size? Just wondering.
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According to this, cellphone was from 1984. It doesn't say whether it's the book (I've never read it) or the year, though.

I would have assumed that it's from the power cell/battery, but I'm probably wrong. You've got me.

Lol.

Acidentally drop it. Several times.

n : a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections (cells), each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver

Ahh I see. So us europeans have a more non-technical reasoning for it's name.

cellular phone and mobile phone are interchangable, here in the US they were firts called Car phones because they were only present in vehicles like limos because of the power consumption and antenna needs. My guess is the people of the US call it a cell phone instead of mobile phone is because cell is shorter (we are pretty lazy).

I never knew that [the car part, not the lazyness] it's pretty interesting. Was it soon after that phones were attached to big cinder block sized batteries?

>Was it soon after that phones were attached to big cinder block sized batteries?

The phones with the external battery in a purse like thing was around the same time as the "car phones" the first all in one sort of modern like cell phone was the huge one that is seen in Night of the Roxberry

Originally Posted by B0bDole

n : a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections (cells), each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver

Yep. IIRC each transitter is pretty low-power and covers about 1km radius. The clever part is the software that handles passing you over to the next cell when you're travelling around. On a long journey you'll travel through hundreds of cells and be handed between them (assuming your phone is switched on) so that at all times the system knows precisely which cell to route any call made to your phone.

Cool stuff.

edit>> Oh, and AFAIK the original car phones weren't cell phones (as the infrastructure wasn't there) but radio-phones. Big powerful transmitters, hence in car only.

>radio-phones. Big powerful transmitters

thats what modern cell phones are, they were bigger and a lot more powerfull because the towers were hard to come by.