idea: second SIM card support
Myk Melez
myk at melez.com
Tue Jan 30 21:28:46 CET 2007
I live in the US but regularly travel to Hungary, and I have a second
SIM card for use abroad. I know it's too late for v1, but for future
versions of the phone, I'd find it useful for the phone to support a
second SIM card.
There a few different ways it could do this. Here are some options, in
order from best/hardest to still-useful/easiest:
1. Have a slot for a second SIM card, and activate both cards at the
same time. (As roaming fees come down, this option, which allows folks
in the States to reach me at my regular US number, becomes more attractive.)
2. Have a slot for a second SIM card, and make the owner choose which
card to activate when turning on the phone. (I've heard there are some
existing phones that do this.)
3. Have a "storage" (i.e. no connectors) slot for a second SIM card, and
make the owner switch the locations of the SIM cards to activate the
other one. (This at least solves the problem of where to store my
secondary SIM when I'm not using it, since it is small and easily lost.)
-myk
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