You've ordered your unlocked, SIM-free, new iPhone 4 from the Apple Store. Good.
You know the iPhone 4 only takes microSIMs. Ok.
How do you get your current mobile account transferred onto a microSIM. Dunno.
It seems the UK mobile networks are in some confusion about this as well.
Here's how the land appears to lie.
A microSIM is smaller than the miniSIM currently used in all mobile phones in the UK. The iPhone 4 and the iPad will only take microSIMs.
If you get an iPhone 4 on contract or PAYG from a network at launch, you will get an active microSIM with it.
But, if you've bought your unlocked phone from the Apple Store, you'll have to get your network to send you one - or pick one up at a store - and then activate it with your account details.
O2 say they're already sending out microSIMs to people who've asked. The other networks say they haven't yet set up a system to do this. Better get a move on then...BEFORE the June 24 iphone launch.
You'll see a post further down this blog about how to cut your current SIM into a microSIM cutting method
but here's another tip.
An unactivated iPad microSIM is exactly the same as an unactivated iPhone 4 microSIM. So, you could ask your network to send you an UNACTIVATED iPad SIM....and simply call them when you get your iPhone, and get them to activate it with your account.
There's lots of advice around - including on the Apple website - that they are different SIMs. They're not, unactivated. They only become different when they're activated by the network for your account ie one for data only, the other for data and calls.
Phew. My head hurts.
You know the iPhone 4 only takes microSIMs. Ok.How do you get your current mobile account transferred onto a microSIM. Dunno.
It seems the UK mobile networks are in some confusion about this as well.
Here's how the land appears to lie.
A microSIM is smaller than the miniSIM currently used in all mobile phones in the UK. The iPhone 4 and the iPad will only take microSIMs.
If you get an iPhone 4 on contract or PAYG from a network at launch, you will get an active microSIM with it.
But, if you've bought your unlocked phone from the Apple Store, you'll have to get your network to send you one - or pick one up at a store - and then activate it with your account details.
O2 say they're already sending out microSIMs to people who've asked. The other networks say they haven't yet set up a system to do this. Better get a move on then...BEFORE the June 24 iphone launch.
You'll see a post further down this blog about how to cut your current SIM into a microSIM cutting method
but here's another tip.
An unactivated iPad microSIM is exactly the same as an unactivated iPhone 4 microSIM. So, you could ask your network to send you an UNACTIVATED iPad SIM....and simply call them when you get your iPhone, and get them to activate it with your account.
There's lots of advice around - including on the Apple website - that they are different SIMs. They're not, unactivated. They only become different when they're activated by the network for your account ie one for data only, the other for data and calls.
Phew. My head hurts.
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