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Second Hand PDA Phone

Last night I went to Plasa Semanggi to meet a PDA owner that wants to sell his PDA. I saw his advertising on a forum on the Internet. After some negotiation about the price, we had a deal and set an appointment to meet.

Because I don’t have personal transportation so I do some social engineering to my colleague, Herru Purnomo to take me to Plasa Semanggi and he ‘voluntarily’ agree

The appointment with the seller is at 18.30 and he is quite punctual. He brings the PDA and its accessories, including the box. It’s a Dopod 838 PDA phone. I took around one hour to check the functionality of the PDA, had some problem when I insert my mobile phone service provider SIM card. The PDA can’t get any signal, although our position is on an open space of Plasa Semanggi. With a soft reset the PDA can get signal from my mobile phone service, it’s very weird.

The Dopod 838 is working fine and still in guarantee period from the distributor until 6 Febuary 2006. It has some minor things though, such as:

• It doesn’t have the original stylus. The original one is lost.
• It doesn’t have hands free. It’s also lost.
• Scratch on the body, but it’s not very bad scratch. The seller said that it’s caused because he put the PDA inside his pocket and get friction with keys.

Anyway, I bought the Dopod 838 for half price of a new one. So I think it’s a good deal and decided to buy it.

Dopod 838 has wi-fi capability but until now I didn’t know yet how to setup it. I’ll read the manual first. Didn’t have the time to read the manual since I to busy trying all the programs and games in the PDA

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