@reinob, did I tell you that you are a genius?

Sadly, it did not help. The reason for asking was that after my extempore, the "enter PIN" dialog heading is in tiny font. Everything else is fine. Not that it bothers me much, I know what it is asking me.

However, while on the topic, I would like the SIM card PIN query to pop up every time GSM is switched on, not just when the phone is switched on. That would include coming back from offline mode and after turning GSM off and back on through the advanced switcher. Is that doable?

Maybe I am just spoiled Having used a Treo 600 for 9 years. It had the SIM card available from outside. It also never switched off (except when the battery ran completely flat, but no way of turning it off through any user action). You could only switch between on- and offline modes. In offline mode, you could swap the SIM card. Switching back to online prompted you for a PIN (regardless of whether you swapped the SIM or not).