topic Re: Phone advice needed. in Other Devices

Phone advice needed.

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 19:43:29 GMT

I broke my phone and the SIM CARD still works.

Is there a way you can just buy a phone, no SIM?

Re: Phone advice needed.

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 19:47:56 GMT

Sure can.

Ones on payg locked to 02 from the O2 shop or from CPW.

Or second hand ones from the high-street store CEX for example.

You would need to choose one that takes your sim card size or can have your number and tariff moved to another sized one via the swapmysim procedure.

Re: Phone advice needed.

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 19:51:37 GMT

How does Swapmysim work?

Re: Phone advice needed.

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 19:56:03 GMT

Basically the procedure moves your number and tariff from your original sim to another sized one.

Either the o2 shop will do it or you can at home via http://swapmysim.o2.co.uk/

Only do this when you have the new sized blank sim card.

You only need to do this if you buy a phone that takes a different sized sim card.

Re: Phone advice needed.

MI5 — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 20:21:35 GMT

It's important to stress that you buy a sim free phone or an O2 phone as you will have much trouble trying to get a phone from another network unlocked to use any O2 sim in it.

Re: Phone advice needed.

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 20:32:36 GMT

Would recommend if you are buying a top end handset that you get sim free as software updates tend to be quicker and generally less troublesome.