Flashback: some crazy phones had three or even four SIM card slots
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- betaquarks
- 88H
- 14 Jul 2023
I still have a LG A395 QUAD SIM card Phone and it is very useful for me! But it's too bad that there isn't an Android version for Quad-SIMcard Slots that all works at the same time.
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- Anonymous
- niK
- 10 Aug 2022
There is obvious reason that not many sim-card-slots, because every sim-online-connection consumes phone battery. Even 2 sim-cards in use consumes battery call time some hours more, and 4 sim-cards in use surely consumes battery very much.
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- Honeybun
- IWS
- 26 Jul 2022
TechEnemy, 30 May 2022I saw a phone from India with 7 sims. No offence, but still, there are only up to 4 sim slots(along with 2 micro sd slots).All 4 sims work simultaneously.there are sim readers having 8 or 12 slots.but they work in a different manner.
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- Honeybun
- IWS
- 26 Jul 2022
Tej, 29 May 2022There used to be some Chinese phones with 6 sim slots that ... moreStill, the maximum number of sim cards a phone can have is 4..this is not a rule.But quad sim is the max for now(all 4 in standby mode)..
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- Anonymous
- XUv
- 03 Jun 2022
potato4k, 02 Jun 2022too bad they were all 2G only. Back then, even dual 3G was ... moreOnly Mediatek support dual 5G.
All their Dimensity lineup is 5G+5G.
Meanwhile all Qualcom chip is 5G+4G only
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- potato4k
- XUy
- 02 Jun 2022
too bad they were all 2G only. Back then, even dual 3G was a rarity, with most even only do 3G/4G only on SIM1 while only 2G on SIM2. It's not until recently that we have dual 4G on most phones. Luckily today, most dual SIM 5G support 5G on both SIMs.
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- AnonD-731363
- Lfw
- 02 Jun 2022
Sam, 31 May 2022Hope not. Im paying 14e for unlimited calls and messages an... moreMan hows that possible.
I pay 32 euros for unlimited calls and texts withing EU and 15GB of data every month.
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- Anonymous
- XBA
- 01 Jun 2022
Rico, 31 May 2022 There 's a country today they don't even sell du... moreTell your country to get up to date
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- Anonymous
- XUv
- 01 Jun 2022
Anonymous, 30 May 2022I prefer physical SIMs over eSIM.
I think eSIM is a step ... moreagree.
true
i have many times say this
AMPS/CDMA were loosing to GSM because it 'forced' the user to do expensive roaming. e-SIM is very unflexible. I have several SIM card of other countries that use by me & my family when one of us travel to that country. This can't be done with e-SIM.
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- Sam
- JFj
- 31 May 2022
AnonD-731363, 30 May 2022With prices i mean cost of calls and messages 10 or 20 or e... moreHope not. Im paying 14e for unlimited calls and messages and 1 terabyte of data for a year. Lets keep usa prices in usa and etc.
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- Rico
- 8Ey
- 31 May 2022
There 's a country today they don't even sell dual sim phones , Argentina , all or most phones sold are single sim , a pain if you are a traveller
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- Jay
- sRc
- 31 May 2022
Dual SIM is still quite useful, especially those with 2 SIM slots and a MicroSD slot. eSim is not ideal especially if you have few phones and like to swap them every now and then.
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- kek
- GBh
- 30 May 2022
BMHater12, 29 May 2022What mobile OS are you going to run anyway?Android is not the only thing that has existed in the world.
Back in 2011, there was Blackberry OS, Meego, Symbian, Windows Phone/Mobile, BadaOS, Firefox OS.
There was plenty of choice, and guess who started playing cards to shot them down? Yes, Google.
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- AnonD-731363
- SH3
- 30 May 2022
With prices i mean cost of calls and messages 10 or 20 or even 30 years ago i am glad that phones with many sims are gone for the good.
Wish that world unifies just like EU and we will have same price for phone calls texts and data for every country.
But thats not possible country like bangladesh, vietnam, india or etiopia for example will be always a lot cheaper here than for example switzerland, usa, finland or cayman isles.
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- Unb1453d
- u7V
- 30 May 2022
Akashi Seijuro, 29 May 20221. I really don't get your obscure hatred against cert... moreThey're either fools or trolls, or both.
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- Unb1453d
- u7V
- 30 May 2022
SpiritWolf, 29 May 2022World would be a lot better place if Google never existed. ... moreAh yes, u reek of the egocentric view, egotism, lots of hatred, arrogance, ignorance, what more can u offer us?
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- Anonymous
- 3SL
- 30 May 2022
David, 30 May 2022I'm surprised people don't think dual sim is a ne... moreAlso depends. I just don't use my office phone for personal stuff and don't plan to. Better that way for me.
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- Anonymous
- tDF
- 30 May 2022
Anonymous, 29 May 2022In the past, off net is very expressive.
So i own 4 phone ... moreThat's the actual purpose of phones with multiple SIMs.
as far as i know, multi SIM phones exist long before smartphone era (as early as year 2000, mostly Chinese made phones), and back then nobody uses internet on their mobile phones because it's too expensive and too painfully slow. so the only advantages of multi SIM phones is for cheaper communications.
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- Anonymous
- tDF
- 30 May 2022
Anonymous, 29 May 2022"As we mentioned earlier, there isn’t much need these ... moreI prefer physical SIMs over eSIM.
I think eSIM is a step back to the AMPS era phones.
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- Dogspurt
- 39x
- 30 May 2022
There used to be twin SIM converter kits made by third parties which could (just about) fit in Nokia phones in the early noughts. They were impractical as it was necessary to manually choose which of the two SIMs was active.