News · 22 Nov 2010 · MTW Editorial Team
It seems like Dell Venue Pro fans just can’t get a break these days. After the Wifi, camera and headphone issues comes the SIM card problems. As previously announced by Dell the Venue Pro is now apparently back in stock at Microsoft’s store so all the early adopters can now exchange their engineering sample units for real final devices. Unfortunately something went wrong again and the devices are unable to read the SIM cards after a simple reboot of the handset.
Well good luck to all who are hoping to get their units shipped. My Venue Pro days are over for now. I got the call to replace my unit from the MS store today and I headed on down there…
1) got the phone exchanged and noticed right away that the build was a bit better as the slider was tighter and it was straight and not slightly off center. The bad part was none of my SIM cards would work in it.The store tried another SIM card from an employee and that did not work either.
2) phone 2 from the store.. got it opened up and again it would not read any of the sim cards. Again tried three working SIM cards and again none of them worked.
At this point I gave up.. they only had one unit left. I took an HD7 and was told that if they get more Dell units I could come in and swap out again.. At this point I am not sure I am ready to trust Dell.. Love the screen, Keyboard and gorilla glass but having a functioning phone has t count for something.
source: xda-devs thanks to everybody who sent this in
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