Card Adds Dual Sim Functionality To Any Phone Comments

Author Gordon Kelly
Published 19th Oct 2008
Card Adds Dual Sim Functionality To Any Phone

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comment Paul Nicolson said on 20th October 2008

I had a duel sim adapter about 5 years ago, these are nothing new, you just had to switch the phone on and off to swap sims.

comment Justin said on 20th October 2008

They do now Support GSM and 3G-USIM SIM Card (for order shipped after 17 Oct 2008).

Should work with any sim card

comment needlegun said on 20th October 2008

What is so annoying is that the standard SIM card and the carriers themselves, have the ability to support TWO SEPARATE phone numbers on a single SIM card.

Since the late 90's I had a 'Line Two' contract with Orange UK, for which I had a single phone handset containing a single SIM card. Pressing and holding the # key would toggle which line the phone would make outgoing calls on. Also, both lines were active for inbound calls all the time, so people could call me on either number, regardless of which outgoing line was currently set. Another benefit was that the second line cost me just £5 a month plus calls!

However, after 10 years or so Orange UK decided they didn't want to support this service any longer for obvious reasons... it's more lucrative for the handset manufacturers and the phone carriers to get you to use TWO handsets. That way they can charge you for two full contracts and sell you two devices.

So, the technology has been there for a long time but the profiteering attitude of the phone companies means we'll never see it again.

comment Lon Bailey said on 20th October 2008

Do we have a report of anyone who actually managed this? Ditto for the previous "cut a notch out of your sim card" report - any successful reports?

comment Gordon said on 20th October 2008

@Justin - thanks for the update Justin, where did you see this?

comment Ryan said on 20th October 2008

how exactly do you manually change? is it done as a sim service or as software that may not run on all handsets?

comment TJ said on 20th October 2008

Details on 3G support is on the features section on the product page:

http://www.usbfever.com/index_eproduct_view.php?products_id=846

comment Gordon said on 20th October 2008

Updated with credits :)

comment xbrumster said on 21st October 2008

have to say... WOW!
I hate carrying 2 handsets with me all the time.. both are work mob and one is for receving one is for calling... i know it sounds complicated but there are far more things in the world are like this...lol
sadly my iphone 1g doesnt work with 3 and there is no unlock for 3g version.
Q: will this work with iphone 3g sim unlock?

comment kassam18 said on 25th October 2008

I would like to add that both numbers are NOT online at the same time. I bought this adapter from http://www.usbfever.com/index_eproduct_view.php?products_id=846 and it stated in the description "Both numbers are online simultaneously". I recieved the adapter they would only work one at a time however it just made it a little easy to switch without switching the phone off. I emailed them and they sent me this reply:

"For the description "Both numbers are online simultaneously", from my understanding, it means 2 numbers in 1 mobile, not mean to you can have 2 numbers using at the same time. Anyway, it seems the sentence leads people to think as what you think.

To make less misunderstading, we've removed the sentence and will check with technician and let's get back to you later.

Sorry for the inconvenience caused."

I have been on the website since and it has been removed. Total balls..

comment Gordon said on 25th October 2008

@kassam18 - many thanks for the update. Not the news anyone would want to hear. I've updated the article.

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