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I've had the idea for a while to allow users to own a dumbphone and smartphone and be able to switch them back and forth easily to receive your main #. Smartph
by blklane 12y ago
I've had the idea for a while to allow users to own a dumbphone and smartphone and be able to switch them back and forth easily to receive your main #. Smartphones are so expensive and I don't need the functionality over 50% of the time so it can cut down the risk of breakage by just bringing the flip phone instead.
- dpeck 12y agonot trying to be a smartass here, but a sim card?
- blklane 12y agoBy taking out a sim card you don't remove the risk of physical damage to your phone. By replacing a $10 phone with a $600 phone you can eliminate the risk.
- lbearl 12y agoI think the idea being presented is to physically own both devices, and simply swap the SIM card from device to device as needed.
- zokier 12y agoI'd imagine that swapping (micro)SIM cards gets quite old quite fast. Heck, just rebooting phones all the time would be annoying imho.
- gohrt 12y agoSIM cards/trays are not physically accessible and sturdy enough to make that practical as a daily activity. A "family" plan across both phones is more likely solution.
- blklane 12y agoWas unaware that is all thats needed to transfer a number. Thought about porting a number to Twilio, then to have 2 phones which one would have to pay for and just switch the call forwarding. I'll check out the sim card solution, thanks for the info!
- galvan 12y agoGoogle Voice? Sure it'd require two phone plans, but I guess it's either that or swapping SIM cards around.
- 0x0 12y agoSome carriers will let you have two active sim cards for one number simultaneously.