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steva11
Posts: 1680
Phone Model:
w810i/pearl
Service Provider:
Rogers |
 
Sat Jul 15, 2006 4:08 pm |
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It's been on the market for less than a month, and problems are already starting to pop up. Don't get me wrong, the Sidekick 3 from T-Mobile is a worthy successor to the last generation IM'er, and the feature set will keep you interested and connected, but there's one strange quirk. It turns out that the magnet housed in the Sidekick 3 is pretty strong. So strong, in fact, that it "obliterates the stored data" on credit cards.
Rumblings on the internet at this point, but "a couple guys" tested out the strength of the Sidekick 3's magnet (which allows it to the that "cool flipping thing") and found that it was strong enough to hold up a regular table knife or fork. That's pretty powerful.
A nice thick wallet might be able to protect you from the potential disaster of having a de-magnetized card with no other way to pay for dinner, but in the meantime, I think it best you avoid putting your SK3 and credit cards too close together.
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QD
Posts: 78
Phone Model:
N-Gage QD, N90, MDA (02)
Service Provider:
T-Mobile |
Fri Jul 21, 2006 9:24 pm |
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SkyFlyer
Posts: 13 |
Tue Jul 25, 2006 6:03 pm |
owned 
... Honey, it seems my credit card won't work... will you pay for dinner?
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Jadall
Posts: 389
Phone Model:
Nokia 3300,Nokia n-gage, SEt290a
Service Provider:
Cingular |
Wed Jul 26, 2006 9:31 pm |
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I worked at a restraunt american express requires a physical copy of a card with a demagnatized strip so guess what we would hand the card back to them and tell them to give us another card. and tell them to contact american express since no one knew how to work the thing that makes the carbon copies of the credit card if we had one. (this restraunt was mean they make us pay for unpaid credit cards orders. amex was silly a lot of waiters would just hand the cards back.) (they also charged higher fees which the restraunt passed on to the waiters.. )
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taah
Posts: 22
Phone Model:
Moto V3
Service Provider:
Vodafone |
Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:40 am |
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Strong enough to hold up a regular table knife or fork? Doesnt seem likely. I wouldnt believe that. Knifes and forks are pretty heavy. I really doubt that the magnet inside the SK3 would be able to hold up cutlery.
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elmo01
Posts: 2195
Phone Model:
Samsung SPH-M510
Service Provider:
Bell Canada |
Fri Aug 18, 2006 8:15 am |
I watched a mythbusters a while back where they tested a theory on this...
they went thru a whole series of things to erase that strip...
they tried coils ...rubbing 2 cards together ... the dreaded strip to strip in a wallet...even an industrial degausser ( a tape eraser ,it worked but had to be turned up)
and their concensus was it is very difficult to erase a magenetic strip on a card
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