Why?
Why can’t my wireless phone have two SIM cards in it? One for personal. One for work. I envision a phone a lot like my favorite phone of all time, the Sony Ericson T610. Only slightly different. This phone would have two seperate slots, and operate on both GSM frequencies. You’d be able to put your work SIM in it for Cingular’s network and your personal SIM in it for TMobile’s network. When the phone rings it would tell me both which line is calling and who’s calling me.
I know something similar to this might work in Europe, only you can put two numbers on one SIM. I’m throwing this post up without much research, because a quick goolge search returned nothing of relevance. This to me says there is a massive gap in the marketplace. All of my co-workers carry two phones. I don’t think they should have to.
April 8th, 2005 at 12:53 pm
Yes in Europe they have something like that. I had a bad version in my phone in Ireland. Only every time you swiched your phone on and off it swapped SIM cards. That was a few years ago, so I am sure the technology has changed and improved. However the US is WAY behind on the SIM revolution. The difficuty lies in the changing of networks. Even if your phone is unlocked the networks clash.
So yes here in the States we need to work on that…hopefully someone has the whole thing in the works
April 8th, 2005 at 1:38 pm
Exactly!
I don’t see why we are behind. We can put radio transmitters in our passports, but we can’t cram the technology for two SIM cards into a cell phone?