| How to identify a new
phone
By SOLA FANAWOPO
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Many people have been victims of refurbished phones when
they unknowingly purchase them, owing to its cheapness.
Now phone buyer can get to identify new phones, especially
for Nokia and Samsung. Press *#0000# then send. The result
would be on the screen.
For other phones, apart from Nokia and Samsung, punch *#06#
and the International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) will
show. This serial number usually start with ‘35’
and it must be the exact number of the one written on the
phone pack.
At other times, a skeptical Nokia buyer may want to know the
expiry date of such a phone as well as if it had been repaired
before.
This can be done, if *#92702689# is punched in the phone.
The whole date would come up on the screen. Usually, it is
advisable to purchase phones manufactured not quite long to
the current year and not the one manufactured four or five
years earlier.
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