On Wednesday, 9 November 2016 11:53:15 UTC, John Rumm wrote:
On 09/11/2016 11:03, Muddymike wrote:
On 08/11/2016 14:22, JoeJoe wrote:
On 07/11/2016 22:15, Tim+ wrote:
JoeJoe wrote:
On 07/11/2016 14:56, DerbyBorn wrote:
I have a very old and basic Nokia 1616 (it has a torch and that is
as good
as it gets) I use Pay AS you Go with EE.


I would guite like a smart phone (Android) now as I find my tablet
useful
but a bit big.

I really don't understand about SIM cards and things. If I see a
phone at
Asda or somewere - can I just buy it and put my card in.

Most smart phones are "locked" to a specific network, so simply
transferring the SIM to another phone (unless bought from EE) will
not work.

You need to either:

1. Buy a phone from EE; or
2. Buy an "unlocked/SIM-free" phone;
3. Buy any phone and pay £10 to have it unlocked so that it can be
used
with any SIM



Potentially expensively misleading. Many phones may be unlocked
cheaply but
by no means all.

Tim

I buy mobile handsets for my employers. When paid for in full without
contract every phone I have ever bought has been completely free of any
network tie. So no need to unlock whatever sim we put in them.

That's usually the case from the phone shops, but you have to watch the
supermarkets. I know with Tesco for example, it was the case that if you
walk in and buy a PAYG phone it will often still be tied to their PAYG
network.

Also when issuing new sim cards these days they are all multi format.
You just break the sim out of the card to the size needed for the phone..
I have in the past broken them out to a large size sim to copy data from
the old handset, then break it down again to the correct size for the
new handset

These days SIM cards come in three sizes:

Standard SIM (15 x 25mm)
Micro SIM (12 x 15mm)
Nano SIM (8.8 x 12.3mm)

Unless Apple and Google get their way and do away with SIM cards
altogether. ;-)

Why are they needed ?