Know Your Phone IMEI Function

IMEI stands for International Mobile Equiptment Identity. It is not just numbers but have some functions.

In India, India's Department of Telecommunications (DoT) had implement the if the IMEI for verification that the phone is genuine. Phones without the IMEI will be disconnected. The Indian initiative was due to the many low cost Chinese products and other unbranded phones that has been used in terrorists activities. 

 IMEI is a unique 15 digit number found usually in the battery compartment and is automatically transmitted if asked by the network. If you have a genuine mobile phone you can check by pressing *#06# and then the 15 digit number (e.g. 316725.10.4690216) will appear on your screen. This is the IMEI. Another option is to remove the back cover and battery and the number can be seen on the sticker together with the barcode. 

You can check your number online by going HERE and you can check all known information regarding manufacturer, model type, and country of approval of a handset.

What prompted me to write this post is because I received a BBM message about checking the validity of Blackberry Phones. Information regarding where the BB was manufactured can be checked using the seventh and eigth digit as follows:

10 - produced in Finland with best quality

02 or 20 - Asia with poor quality

08 0r 80 - produced in Germany with best quality

03 - Produce either in France or Canada with good quality

04 - Limited Edition produce specially for Canada with best quality in the world.

Therefore if your Blackberry do not have the above mentioned digits it might mean that you are having imitation BBs.


Your IMEI can also be used to block your phone in case the set is lost or being stolen by contacting your network mobile provider requesting them to block the IMEI number. The lost orc stolen phone will be not usable even the sim card has been changed because the new SIM card will request for the service with the IMEI and the blocked IMEI will ignore the request.  


I am not sure whether Malaysia's network provider had implemented this safety procedures.  

The Storm Came

Malaysia had landed the Curve 3G in about the same time as the launch of iPhone4 phones. Now another storm had landed on Malaysian shores. 

Reported in The Star's Tech Central  in conjunction with appointment of another distributor for Malaysia.

By ZAM KARIM
intech@thestar.com.my

" The Torch 9800 is a slider model that RIM said combines the best of two worlds - touchscreen functionality and a physical Qwerty keyboard - in one device.

More precisely, it looks as if RIM has slapped together two of its high-end models, the Storm and Bold, to produce another the Torch.

Measuring 148 x 62 x 14.6mm and weighing 162g, the Torch's 3.2in capacitive TFT touchscreen slides up to reveal a traditional BlackBerry Qwerty keyboard down below.

RIM's SurePress technology, which provides users with tactile feedback when the touchscreen is pressed , is missing from the Torch but the optical trackpad makes the cut.

The phone comes with 4GB of built-in memory that be expanded by up to 32GB via a microSD slot. A 4GB card comes bundled with the package.

Other notable features include a 5-megapixel camera with LED flash, continuous autofocus, 11 scene modes, geotagging as well as VGA video capture with image stabilisation.

As one would expect, there's also WiFi along with Bluetooth connectivity, as well as an A-GPS chip for navigation.

First to get OS 6

The Torch 9800 is also the first BlackBerry device to come with the BlackBerry 6 operating system. The OS is billed as a true hybrid system, where users can do almost anything through touch, on the keypad or using the trackpad in between them.

RIM is expected to make the OS available on the Bold 9700 and 9650, the Curve 3G as well as Pearl 3G.

Some of the major enhancements in BlackBerry 6 include a new browser, which uses the same WebKit engine as the Apple iOS and Google Android browsers.

The new OS also offers a myriad of new media features such as a podcast application, enhanced music and video player, WiFi music synching to the PC on home network and synchronisation with Windows Media Player.

Also available is the Web Video Search app, which is a high-level browser for multiple online video sites, including YouTube, Dailymotion, ifilm, MobiTV, MSN and others.

BlackBerry 6 also features the universal search function where users are able to find just about any piece of content on the phone simply by typing in their query into the search field.

No official prices and availability were announched but interested users can start to pre-order the device now from their respective telcos.

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