Cingular cell phone service - iPhone: No SIM card swapping for overseas travel

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iPhone: No SIM card swapping for overseas travel

Bob Fry

2007-06-29, 4:33 am

So the iPhone can't be unlocked and won't accept another SIM card.
There is a woman at work who was all set to buy one until she figured
that out today. She travels to China and doesn't want to pay $1-$2 a
minute to call her friends there. What she does with her current
phone is use a local SIM card overseas...like lots of people who
travel.

Seems pretty lame by AT&T, and I'm surprised Apple accepted this.
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karlkrandall@sbcglobal.net

2007-06-29, 10:33 am

On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:42:03 -0700, Bob Fry <bobfry@mailinator.com>
wrote:

>So the iPhone can't be unlocked and won't accept another SIM card.
>There is a woman at work who was all set to buy one until she figured
>that out today. She travels to China and doesn't want to pay $1-$2 a
>minute to call her friends there. What she does with her current
>phone is use a local SIM card overseas...like lots of people who
>travel.
>
>Seems pretty lame by AT&T, and I'm surprised Apple accepted this.

Just use a paperclip to eject the Simcard tray at top, and yes you
could change SIM cards.

http://www.macrumors.com/c.php?u=ht...ml&t=1183121110

mrcamp

2007-06-29, 3:33 pm

I am pretty sure the sim can be taken out (Thet's why it's GSM). Kind of
useless right now though, since the phone will be locked to cingular.
Eventually unlocked versions of it will be available.

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mrcamp

Stephen

2007-06-29, 3:33 pm

On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:42:03 -0700, Bob Fry <bobfry@mailinator.com>
had a flock of green cheek conures squawk out:

>So the iPhone can't be unlocked and won't accept another SIM card.
>There is a woman at work who was all set to buy one until she figured
>that out today. She travels to China and doesn't want to pay $1-$2 a
>minute to call her friends there. What she does with her current
>phone is use a local SIM card overseas...like lots of people who
>travel.
>
>Seems pretty lame by AT&T, and I'm surprised Apple accepted this.

Why do you assume it's at&t's fault?

Apple is the one that designed it that way.

Stephen
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SMS

2007-07-02, 10:34 pm

Bob Fry wrote:
> So the iPhone can't be unlocked and won't accept another SIM card.
> There is a woman at work who was all set to buy one until she figured
> that out today. She travels to China and doesn't want to pay $1-$2 a
> minute to call her friends there. What she does with her current
> phone is use a local SIM card overseas...like lots of people who
> travel.
>
> Seems pretty lame by AT&T, and I'm surprised Apple accepted this.

It's not lame by AT&T, they want you to do international roaming. As to
Apple accepting this, maybe it was because they get part of the revenue
of each user each month.

Michael Paris

2007-07-04, 10:33 pm

"SMS" <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote in message
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> Bob Fry wrote:
>
> It's not lame by AT&T, they want you to do international roaming. As to
> Apple accepting this, maybe it was because they get part of the revenue of
> each user each month.

Honestly I don't know what the big deal is, if you want an iphone, get one,
if you don't, don't. If you're gonna do international traveling, then
either get your older gsm phone unlocked, or buy an unlocked gsm phone and
use it at that time.

BTW I use at&t and don't have an iphone, don't think I will get an iphone
right now, nor do I think there's anything wrong with those who have them.
Actually my XXXXX is not so much that the iphone won't take another sim, is
getting at the iphone's sim to use in another phone if I don't feel like
taking it out.

Mike

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