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Sim Card in a smartphone

  • 01-07-2011 3:10pm
    #1
    movingtotheuk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 101 ✭✭


    Is it different to a regular old school one?

    I am asking as I want to transfer my sim from ol skool one into a samsung smartphone.

    Am i blind? Or being incredibly dumb?


Comments

  • #2
    Mark200
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,536 ✭✭✭Mark200


    It's the same!


  • #3
    Jackobyte
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,321 ✭✭✭Jackobyte


    I'm not so sure. The gold plate on my newest 3 sim is smaller than my older sim. An older Simfree phone couldn't detect my new sim.


  • #4
    Meesared
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,234 ✭✭✭Meesared


    They go through minor changes, but theyre all pretty much the same!


  • #5
    jumbone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 609 ✭✭✭jumbone


    Jackobyte wrote: »
    I'm not so sure. The gold plate on my newest 3 sim is smaller than my older sim. An older Simfree phone couldn't detect my new sim.

    Did the old phone support 3G? have you used it on 3 before with an old SIM?


  • #6
    Jackobyte
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,321 ✭✭✭Jackobyte


    jumbone wrote: »
    Did the old phone support 3G? have you used it on 3 before with an old SIM?
    I can't remember which sim I compared it to. The new Sim was a 3 one that came with a Samsung Galaxy Ace. The old sim was either an older 3 one I got with an LG U830 or a meteor one I got with an LG KU990. Both would have supported 3G I would have thought.


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  • #7
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    movingtotheuk wrote: »
    Am i blind? Or being incredibly dumb?
    That's a though one. :confused: We'll need to run tests.


    Sim cards are the same in smartphones there's no need to worry about it.


  • #8
    movingtotheuk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 101 ✭✭movingtotheuk


    Ok lads, its a Samsung Monte UK 02 prepay phone. When I open up the back of it and take out the battery I am confronted with what looks like a sim card 2/3 times the size of a regular sim card. I am incredibly confused. Any thoughts??

    Basically I want to unlock it and slip in my Irish sim card if that makes sense.


  • #9
    movingtotheuk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 101 ✭✭movingtotheuk


    OK i figured it out! The sim card is at the side.

    Just need to figure out now how to unlock UK phone pre pay phone :)


  • #10
    Snowbat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,065 ✭✭✭Snowbat


    A Micro-SIM (as used in the iPad 3G and iPhone 4) is about 2/3 the size of a Mini-SIM:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subscriber_Identity_Module#Formats


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