Just to be sure...swap out sim cards on an iPhone 3G?

[scootermaster]

And I wanna get a beater phone for the beach and stuff.

Is that doable?

 

[Keitero]

You should be able to take the SIM out of the iPhone and move it to a beater phone without any issues. My friend does that every time he goes mountain biking with his 2.5g iPhone.

 

[scootermaster]

Originally posted by: Keitero
You should be able to take the SIM out of the iPhone and move it to a beater phone without any issues. My friend does that every time he goes mountain biking with his 2.5g iPhone.

I know it works for the older iPhone (what's a 2.5g iPhone anyway) but there is talk that it might not work with the newer one (or perhaps that voicemail doesn't work).

Anyone else?

 

[Kmax82]

Haven't tried it, but would be interested in this as well.

 

[scootermaster]

Originally posted by: Kmax82
Haven't tried it, but would be interested in this as well.

It's amazing how hard this is to figure out. Ugh.

 

[Goosemaster]

Keep in mind that that iphone 3g comes with a newer sim card called an USIM that many old phones do not support.

 

[Muadib]

Originally posted by: scootermaster

Originally posted by: Keitero
You should be able to take the SIM out of the iPhone and move it to a beater phone without any issues. My friend does that every time he goes mountain biking with his 2.5g iPhone.

I know it works for the older iPhone (what's a 2.5g iPhone anyway) but there is talk that it might not work with the newer one (or perhaps that voicemail doesn't work).

Anyone else?

2.5G explained.

The usim in the 3G iphone is backwards compatible, and should work in any gsm phone that is 2G capable. I'm not sure about voicemail though, because the 3G iPhone uses visual voicemail, and I'm not sure if it sends the regular notifacation of the old voicemail system.

I'll charge my razr, and try it. I gotta find that litlle sim removal thing for the iPhone. That's gonna be the hard part.😛

 

[Muadib]

I tried it, and get voicemail notification on my Razr. You should be good to go.

 

[Goosemaster]

my bad

 

[scootermaster]

Originally posted by: Muadib
I tried it, and get voicemail notification on my Razr. You should be good to go.

Are you on ATT (i.e in the US)

If so, RAD!

And regardless, thank you for checking this out. That's very considerate of you and I appreciate you taking the time.

 

[Muadib]

Yes, I'm on at&t in the US, and it was no problem.