[ale] Moving my phone into the 20th Century

[Jim Kinney]

I asked about the sim card. The answer I got was "The card is used to
identify the phone on the network. Change it if you travel overseas."

That sounds like GSM methodology to me.


On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Michael Campbell <
michael.campbell at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 10:09 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> > FYI: The (fairly) new Motorola Razr M model at Verizon uses a SIM card
>
> I think the SIM part of CDMA-only phones (not sure if the Razr M
> qualifies there) is for the 4G functionality.  You can't, as far as I
> know, use the phone on another network simply by changing SIMs.
>
> (If I'm wrong here someone please tell me so I can be less stupid
> today than I was yesterday.)
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