My wife found a phone in the parking lot.
She brings it home asking me how to turn it on and call the person that owns it so it can be returned to the owner. (yes, the little evil hamster on my shoulder said, KEEP IT! KEEP IT!!!)
So I open the case, and lo and behold it's a Moto SLVR.
Yikes, someone lost an expensive phone.
But seeing as how I, personally have a $600 phone, I'd certainly like for whomever would find mine to call me/email me to return it.
But here's the problem. The person already disabled the phone account (it's a Cingular phone), and there is no owner info in the phone (as far as I can tell, I looked through all the menus.) and no owner info in the case, or on the phone itself. Anyone know of a hidden menu in the Moto SLVR or RAZR that will display the account's phone number so I can call them? They probably already disabled that SIM card, and got a new one, so I'm hoping they kept their same phone number.
Fortunately for the owner of this phone, I have a mini USB charger that works with it, so I charged it up, and tried to look up the info. But the only thing left is to start calling people randomly in their phone book and tell them to ask their friends if they lost a phone and to make contact.
My wife is going to call from her work and hopefully the owner turns up. Otherwise I guess we have a free SLVR, but funny thing is neither of us are on Cingular, so the phone is useless to us anyways, and if it were a CDMA based phone it would be a brick since the account was disabled.
Well, I do have a needy friend that has an absolute POS Cingular phone I could donate to him, but I don't want to get his hopes up because I'm sure we'll be able to find the owner.
Here's a tip folks:
If you have an expensive phone, please enter a "Please call/email "xxxxxxx" if found." And if you have a carry case/holster, put a label or something with contact info printed on it, in case your battery is dead. Otherwise services like StuffBak would be a good idea as well. Having zero info on or in your phone make it difficult for "honest" people like me to return your phone to you.
And hope that the person that finds it doesn't listen to the evil hamster on their shoulder.
-Ed
She brings it home asking me how to turn it on and call the person that owns it so it can be returned to the owner. (yes, the little evil hamster on my shoulder said, KEEP IT! KEEP IT!!!)
So I open the case, and lo and behold it's a Moto SLVR.
Yikes, someone lost an expensive phone.
But seeing as how I, personally have a $600 phone, I'd certainly like for whomever would find mine to call me/email me to return it.But here's the problem. The person already disabled the phone account (it's a Cingular phone), and there is no owner info in the phone (as far as I can tell, I looked through all the menus.) and no owner info in the case, or on the phone itself. Anyone know of a hidden menu in the Moto SLVR or RAZR that will display the account's phone number so I can call them? They probably already disabled that SIM card, and got a new one, so I'm hoping they kept their same phone number.
Fortunately for the owner of this phone, I have a mini USB charger that works with it, so I charged it up, and tried to look up the info. But the only thing left is to start calling people randomly in their phone book and tell them to ask their friends if they lost a phone and to make contact.
My wife is going to call from her work and hopefully the owner turns up. Otherwise I guess we have a free SLVR, but funny thing is neither of us are on Cingular, so the phone is useless to us anyways, and if it were a CDMA based phone it would be a brick since the account was disabled.
Well, I do have a needy friend that has an absolute POS Cingular phone I could donate to him, but I don't want to get his hopes up because I'm sure we'll be able to find the owner.
Here's a tip folks:
If you have an expensive phone, please enter a "Please call/email "xxxxxxx" if found." And if you have a carry case/holster, put a label or something with contact info printed on it, in case your battery is dead. Otherwise services like StuffBak would be a good idea as well. Having zero info on or in your phone make it difficult for "honest" people like me to return your phone to you.
And hope that the person that finds it doesn't listen to the evil hamster on their shoulder.
-Ed
