Please be warned friends that the company known as Any-network based in the UK, are complete and total fraudsters!
I ordered a v3 sim adapter from them last week Wednesday (I should have received it within 1-2 days as I'm in the same country as them). After more than 80+ calls, and actually getting hold of someone, i.e. their MD Marcel, I have been fobbed off with lies that my sim card has already been shipped to me. Roayal mail takes one day to deliver in the UK and 2 worst case scenario.
It finally arrived this afternoon, loose in an envelope with no protection at all! Some parts of the edge of the sim adapter look completely bent out of shape too.
Nonetheless, I attempted to complete the seemingly simple installation as my sim card doesn't need any cutting and the micro-chip is on the reverse side of the adapter, compared to all other sim adapters I have seen to date.
Cut a long story short, It DOES NOT WORK!! At All!! No Sim, is the usual message. I hasten to add that their new design doesn't even allow to the adapter to slot into the sim tray with 'ANY' simcard I tried it with! I ended up having to open the iPhone 3G and disconnecting the front of the device to get a closer inspection. It simply doesn't have the room to slide past the connectores due to the chip being placed on the other side of the adapter!
I had to manually insert the adapter from within the phone into its place and then slide my sim card between the metal plate that keeps everything tightly fitted together, then put the phone back together. i did this several times but to no avail.
I can only conclude that the sim adapter they sent me almost a week late, simply doesn't work or is faulty. I'm no newbie to technology or elctronics and have the necessary skills to do what I did. I strongly suggest that most people don't ever open their phones up!
Nonetheless, my T-Mobile sim slips easily into the sim tray without the adapter from any-Network as do 2 other sim cards I have from different network providers, but NONE fit with the adapter without me going through the process described above.
So I strongly suggest and warn any others that they stay well clear from Any-Networks V3 2.2 Firmware solution, as it doesn't work and the company (which I believe concists of 1 salesperson and 1 engineer - probably th esame person and 1 answer machine which is never used other than to avoid customer calls).
I have requested a refund and that request has not been responded to either. I understand that this may be an isolated incident, but is there anyone else that has success with the supposed 'only 3G unlock solution in the world for the new 2.28 baseband', as they claim all over the internet?
I'm sorry to admit that I have been scammed! But not to worry, I'll be getting in touch with trading standards in the UK concerning this and will post a shorter warning, lol, on other Iphone sites where they have spread their lies!
They charge more than double for their sim adapter than anyone else, on the basis that they are the only ones in the world that have cracked the 2.28 baseband problem, yet theirs is the worst of the bunch.
P.S. I spent in excess of 3 hours on this today, to be fair to them, in case the error was on my behalf.
I'm done with sim adapters! I'll sell my fully working but locked to o2 iPhone 3G or start a new contract with o2 and downgrade my existing T-Mobile contract.
All said and done, the dev-team did warn us all to stay away from theses Sim adapters, didn't they? So serve me right for not listening.
Just don't make the same mistakes I did folks and please by all means stay away from Any_Network products as they are scam artist!
I'll also be paying them a personal visit within the next week to get my money back plus my fuel expenses. And trust me, when they see me
, they'll only be to glad to pay me off.
12-20-2008, 09:53 AM
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