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| GSM USB SIM Card Reader Writer Cellular Phone & SMS Device Compatible | 
 enlarge | Brand: Shoptronics
Category: CE
Buy New: $49.95
Avg. Customer Rating:  21 reviews
Color: Translucent Blue
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
MPN: SIMUSB
Model: SIMUSB
UPC: 810884006773
ASIN: B000F50VJK
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
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 Horrible garbage, a $5 bag of chips is better August 9, 2008
I bought this piece of trash (Lead Tide, Link Depot, whatever it's rebaged at), is a COMPLETE mess. 99% of shareware beats this junk out. As someone mentioned the mini-cd is missing files. I just searched mine suggestions as to what to load and guess what? NOT on the CD. No manual, the built in help is missing pics (nice touch). CD is 2007, but the software/drivers are much more older then that, not to mention there IS NO paper manual. This item is beyond trash to inexcusable insult to those that have tried over and over in frustration to get it to work. I have tried on 2 P4's and 2 AMD 64 systems. ALWAYS an RS-232 device not found (gee, we are already slowly phasing USB so WTH?!?). So I busted out an old P3 w/multi-boots, went into 98se, more problems installing, cant read a 'working SIM card' for squat. This item is the WORST item I ever bought for a computer and I am talking from the TRS-80 era on up). Luckily who I bought it from gave me a refund and said just to keep it, don't bother sending it back. STEER CLEAR OF THIS ITEM!!! Oh by the way, it "ate"/erased/something (actually totalled my SIM) off of one of my cell's SIM card even with the "cannot locate/read or whatever RS-232" device popup in the retarded software. So I carefully removed stick+SIM, put it in my cell and got a "cannot read SIM card" error. Sweet ehh? Besides what surprises me(well really not/reviews) is it seems like 99.9% of the populace cannot get this thing to work, even somewhat! Cheap as in GARBAGE! Btw: mini-cd says V2.0 (get this, labeled on cd are utilities that DO NOT EXSIST on the CD), box says Contents: SIM reader/CD-ROM Driver/Guide Book*/Extensional cable* with *=not included! (hah).
Before I end this review, I have tried it on others computer systems aswell....NO DICE!!! ---PURE TRASH--- ps: on the side of the box it reads System requirements: Windows98/ME/2000/XP & one free USB port. Luckily who I ordered it from gave me a refund, was only like six bucks retail (s&h+tx totaled about $11-12)
DOES NOT WORK_RIP OFF_DO NOT BUY March 26, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Software provided does not work. Can not find any helpful info on web except that lots of other people bought and can not use this item either.
DO NOT BUY
Tried it on 3 different computers.... March 7, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
with three different Operating Systems - WinMe, WinXP, and Vista. It would not install properly on any of them. The software would install, but could not find the device. The driver CD reminds me of the days of shovelware, when unscrupulous companies would market disks of multimedia, and included nothing but a bunch of cr@p. This looks like someone bought a bunch of defective merchandise from a cheap importer, and then markets it all around the Web.
 Works once you figure it out March 7, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Serial 7891 My reader came with a small cd.. here is what I did...
You need to install the contents of the Usb-SIM9.0 folder that comes on the cd as well as Usb-232\HL0108\ Hugepine setup (Hugepine allows your computer to read the usb card as a serial port. Com 3 worked for me. Happy hunting
waste of time January 7, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
this cheap little piece of plastic cost me three hours of my time the instructions were in chinese and did not work whatsoever, i left negative feedback for the ComputerGeek company and they have emailed me saying they will refund my purchase 8 weeks ago, apparently "the check is in the mail".
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