maybe it's metal cased phones
Because my Nokia E66 does exactly same thing.
Posts by RayDio
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Tuesday 22nd September 2009 14:59 GMT 
It's My Electronic Id and I'll hide it if I want to
The more I think about this the sillier it is. The tiny little 2D barcode is easily "accidentally" scratched so as to be unreadable, and all phones give up their IMEI in response to a keyboard command anyway.
Either this device is pure fiction, a la television detector van, or, as Neil 4 says, the Met have been taken for mugs.
Alternatively, It may be an excuse to spend some time alone with a suspect's phone extracting the call logs under the pretext of checking to see if it's stolen.
Tuesday 22nd September 2009 14:06 GMT
Stolen phone database
We have a national stolen phone database? When did that happen? Can I use it to see if the phone the guy down the pub wants to sell me is stolen, or is it just for coppers to play with?
I thought when you said "scanner" you meant in the radio sense, not the optical sense. Is it now an offense to remove the IMEI sticker?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
