They'd have his original phone and the new phones IMEI numbers in their database. Its not meant to be easy to cheat haha

How would it be cheating?

somehow the call went straight to voicemail but the lady was really hard to understand... think her mic was too close to her mouth...

what i could gather is she only told me my 1 year warranty was up so my replacement device was out of warranty when the original expired... lovely...

That makes sense. Part of the initial cost of the device is to cover warranty repair for the period offered (in the US one year). The replacement device was at no additional cost so there is no extension of the warranty. I purchased a third party service agreement for the second year. Hopefully will not have to use it. My warranty experience has been a display replacement ten months into use. Went well, received same device I sent in. I've seen 90 day warranty periods on Nokia devices supplied as replacements through Asurion but nowhere else.

i am going to end up just using it till i can afford a new handset...

last night my unit was stolen... chunked from a car... someone found it called all my friends and returned it to my home... with that being said... now i am just greatful to have the phone in working order... ill use other battery charging unit..


update: nokia called and said due to conflicting statements they are going to request an exception and that they are going to email me shipping label so they can proccess a replacement device....