# SIM card reader needed **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [October 18, 2006, 11:43am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sim-card-reader-needed/18970 "2006-10-18T11:43:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ovrwrkd](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/ovrwrkd/32/7586_2.png) [@Ovrwrkd](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Ovrwrkd)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 11:43am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sim-card-reader-needed/18970/1 "2006-10-18T11:43:48Z")
Anyone have a SIM card reader or know where I might get one? Just switched over from Nextel to Verizon and need to transfer contacts over. I tried taking the card and phone to a Verizon store but got nowhere 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Locutus](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/locutus/32/7574_2.png) [@Locutus](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Locutus)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 11:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sim-card-reader-needed/18970/2 "2006-10-18T11:52:07Z")
ummmmm ya durr you should just have pm’ed me [http://www.paraben-forensics.com/catalog/product\_info.php?cPath=26&products\_id=308&osCsid=c7dcd764da3f8c0bdb904056e177f715](http://www.paraben-forensics.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=26&products_id=308&osCsid=c7dcd764da3f8c0bdb904056e177f715) ---
**Author:** ![Ovrwrkd](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/ovrwrkd/32/7586_2.png) [@Ovrwrkd](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Ovrwrkd)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 12:13pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sim-card-reader-needed/18970/3 "2006-10-18T12:13:32Z")
> [@Locutus](#): > > ummmmm > ya > > durr > > you should just have pm’ed me > > [paraben-forensics.com](http://www.paraben-forensics.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=26&products_id=308&osCsid=c7dcd764da3f8c0bdb904056e177f715) Helpful, but I leave for Charlotte tomorrow and would like to TRY and do this today 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Locutus](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/locutus/32/7574_2.png) [@Locutus](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Locutus)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 12:16pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sim-card-reader-needed/18970/4 "2006-10-18T12:16:16Z")
have it shipped there now… it will be waiting at the hotel for you 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Locutus](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/locutus/32/7574_2.png) [@Locutus](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Locutus)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 12:17pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sim-card-reader-needed/18970/5 "2006-10-18T12:17:00Z")
you will also need somethign (software) to read the data from the sim… ---
**Author:** ![JustinH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@JustinH](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JustinH)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 12:20pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sim-card-reader-needed/18970/6 "2006-10-18T12:20:19Z")
the guys at sprint did it for me from my old tmobile phone. ---
**Author:** ![Ovrwrkd](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/ovrwrkd/32/7586_2.png) [@Ovrwrkd](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Ovrwrkd)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 12:34pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sim-card-reader-needed/18970/7 "2006-10-18T12:34:22Z")
Like I said, I tried taking it ti a Verizon store. They tried and failed, miserably. ---
**Author:** ![Locutus](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/locutus/32/7574_2.png) [@Locutus](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Locutus)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 12:36pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sim-card-reader-needed/18970/8 "2006-10-18T12:36:20Z")
have an intern do it… as in transfer all your stuff. thats what im going to do. ---
**Author:** ![Ovrwrkd](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/ovrwrkd/32/7586_2.png) [@Ovrwrkd](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Ovrwrkd)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 12:47pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sim-card-reader-needed/18970/9 "2006-10-18T12:47:28Z")
Anyone know if local retailers would sell these things? ---
**Author:** ![Locutus](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/locutus/32/7574_2.png) [@Locutus](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Locutus)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 1:07pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sim-card-reader-needed/18970/10 "2006-10-18T13:07:11Z")
what you could do is get the data cable for both phones - use a free software called Bitpim, i think its on sourceforge and pull the data from the phone… its actually really easy to do if your just trying to pull active data. ---
**Author:** ![Joe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/joe/32/7219_2.png) [@Joe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Joe)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 1:12pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sim-card-reader-needed/18970/11 "2006-10-18T13:12:09Z")
oh you poor CDMA people ---
**Author:** ![walter](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/walter/32/7202_2.png) [@walter](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/walter)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 1:33pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sim-card-reader-needed/18970/12 "2006-10-18T13:33:29Z")
call evolve ---
**Author:** ![Ovrwrkd](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/ovrwrkd/32/7586_2.png) [@Ovrwrkd](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Ovrwrkd)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 1:44pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sim-card-reader-needed/18970/13 "2006-10-18T13:44:21Z")
Bought the data cable… only $29.99. Guess I’ll just play around with it tonight. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Geehee](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/geehee/32/7238_2.png) [@Geehee](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Geehee)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 2:02pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sim-card-reader-needed/18970/14 "2006-10-18T14:02:38Z")
> [@walter](#): > > call evolve :hay: super easy edit: wouldnt have been an issue had you contacted me first about buying a phone…would have been free too ---
**Author:** ![Ovrwrkd](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/ovrwrkd/32/7586_2.png) [@Ovrwrkd](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Ovrwrkd)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2006, 7:50am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sim-card-reader-needed/18970/15 "2006-10-19T07:50:08Z")
Discounts through work for Verizon \> \* … sorry Jeff. Data cable worked with iDen’s software. Bitpim doesn’t work with Nextel phones… silly Krazyjon 😛 Oh yeah, I’m posting this whie waiting for my flight in the airport. Evdo \> me 😃 ---
**Author:** ![2TurboZ](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/2turboz/32/7577_2.png) [@2TurboZ](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/2TurboZ)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2006, 7:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sim-card-reader-needed/18970/16 "2006-10-19T07:52:03Z")
Silly Andy ---
**Author:** ![Geehee](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/geehee/32/7238_2.png) [@Geehee](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Geehee)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2006, 2:42pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sim-card-reader-needed/18970/17 "2006-10-20T14:42:52Z")
> [@Itagaki](#): > > Discounts through work for Verizon \> \* … sorry Jeff. Data cable worked with iDen’s software. Bitpim doesn’t work with Nextel phones… silly Krazyjon 😛 > > Oh yeah, I’m posting this whie waiting for my flight in the airport. Evdo \> me 😃 word, evdo is sweet. i can understand the work discounts, but most of the time i can do those as well ---
**Author:** ![Locutus](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/locutus/32/7574_2.png) [@Locutus](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Locutus)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2006, 2:49pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sim-card-reader-needed/18970/18 "2006-10-20T14:49:45Z")
bit pim for nextel does work… you just used it wrong 😛