<div class="gmail_quote">2010/3/17 Frédéric Ledain <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:frederic.ledain@onmobile.com">frederic.ledain@onmobile.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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> Is this a software or hardware limitation? My previous mobile phones showed me the number correctly when I inserted a new chip.<br>
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</div>AFAIK, no API gives the SIM phone number, as this is an information<br>
which belongs to the mobile operator.<br>
Actually, the correspondance IMSI <-> SIM phone number is made at mobile<br>
operator side.<br>
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I think that anti-theft mecanism can securely be based on IMSI swap detection.<br>
Phone number doesn't add any valuable information in this context.<br></blockquote></div><br>Agreed, but try not to think as much as a software engineer and think as a simple user. Some people just forget their number - and it's useful if they can see it on the mobile, for telling other people. Some people carry a few SIMs around, and this information - the phone number - is useful to them.<br>
<br>It might be that regular mobile phones use some kind of workaround to get this information - like, say, getting the destination number when they get a call - but nevertheless it is useful information that can be show to the user.<br>
<br>So, really, no way to get it from the OS data?<br clear="all"><br>Best regards,<br>-- <br>Cláudio "Patola" Sampaio<br>IRC: ptl - Yahoo: patolaaa<br>Campinas, SP - Brazil.<br>