[GadgetKen]

The instructions look like they were made for multiple phones, and they change them slightly for every model. Nothing about the sim slot uses. The sales materials on the web did say that it's not meant for 3g sim cards so I expected some minor issues.

Apparently putting the ekit sim card into slot 2 instead of slot 3 or 4 *greatly* increased battery life. Have full battery strength bars after 12 hours of standby and only a few minutes of calls. The choice of sim card location I think depends on whether the chip is more advanced and if you need bluetooth headset functionality (BT works best with slot 1). I put the AT&T/Jolt MVNO chip in slot 1, ekit in slot 2 (for phone stability and battery life), Digicel in slot 3 (more just to see if I have text messages in the US, voice is expensive off the Digicel regional network), and the T-Mobile/Tuyo in slot 4. When outside the US I probably would switch the Digicel chip to the first position so it has all the bells and whistles functionality.

On the low power analog, yeah it's working with just a scrap of a signal. I could attach it to a DTV box and/or a rooftop antenna for more channels, but then it would lose it's portability. Will see if analog broadcasts are still in Grand Cayman when I'm there the beginning of next year. Wonder if it will also pick up Cuba just to the north or Jamaica to the south (sometimes unusual signal skip in the Caribbean). Room will have over the air or cable tv, but curious what the tv tuner on the phone will pick up by itself.