Micro SIM to regular adapter

[svartalfheim_0]

Hi

My old phone takes the normal size SIM card, but I am now due for an upgrade and the new phone I am looking at takes the Micro (3FF) so my normal SIM will need to be cut down to the micro size.

I have seen on the internet that you get a adapter/holder where you can put in your cut down micro SIM so that it's basically the same size again as your normal SIM and you can then put it back in your old phone for when the occasion arises when you need it for a spare or whatever.

Do we have it here? How much does it go for? Will any MTN store stock it?

Thanks.

Unrelated question: I am looking at a smartphone with anytime topup 100 and 25 sms contract. As far as data is concerned I only use whatsapp and emails. (No facebook and maybe once or twice a month I will pop on the internet) Now the question is, seeing that I will not be getting any data on this deal and blackberry doesn't have BIS anymore, will the whatsapp switch to using my airtime if it has no data to use?

 

[Spizz]

Take your sim to a phone shop to get it cut with the machine, and use the trimmed bit as an adapter when you want to use old phone.

 

[gfmalan]

or buy this
http://www.takealot.com/sim-card-adapter-size-changer-micro-sim-nano-sim-noosy/PLID40939718

 

[svartalfheim_0]

Take your sim to a phone shop to get it cut with the machine, and use the trimmed bit as an adapter when you want to use old phone.

Ok but the question is can I buy the adapter I'm talking about somewhere is it even available in SA? Because I have seen the cutting process at some cellular shops and they just use scissors cutting the trimmed bit into pieces. lol

 

[Hamish McPanji]

Real men cut their own sims

 

[Spizz]

Ok but the question is can I buy the adapter I'm talking about somewhere is it even available in SA? Because I have seen the cutting process at some cellular shops and they just use scissors cutting the trimmed bit into pieces. lol

They use a little machine that looks like a stapler. It spits out both parts and you use they outer bit as an adapter.

But you can buy the adapters at some shops though. I paid R50 for a pack of different sizes at a Vodacom shop in Somerset West about a year ago.

 

[Hamish McPanji]

1.Buy a sim at Checkers or PNP that is dual micro/standard for R0.99
2. Snap the micro part out....the remaining part is your adapter
3. Download the microsim template from das internet
4. Follow the instructions on the template and draw lines on your existing sim
5. Cut the sim using a pair of scissors. Do not use a boxcutter as those slip.
6. Pour yourself a whisky, and ponder as to your coolness.
7. Stick your man card back on the wall for all the wussies to see.
8. Tell everyone you cut your own sim cards.

 

[LazyLion]

Look on the ground outside any cell phone shop and you will see those regular adapters lying all over the place - people usually just throw them away as they walk out of the shop.

 

[xodosman123]

sim swap...easy

 

[cavedog]

With MTN you get 1 free simwap to a LTE sim. Why not just do that? It's free and will be LTE enabled.

 

[svartalfheim_0]

I don't see any point in a sim swap because I want to keep the regular size one for my old phone and on the mtn website it says that for contract subscribers it will deactivate the old sim when doing a sim swap.

 

[Pho3nix]

I don't see any point in a sim swap because I want to keep the regular size one for my old phone and on the mtn website it says that for contract subscribers it will deactivate the old sim when doing a sim swap.

You get an adaptor with the new sim so just do a sim swap.

 

[svartalfheim_0]

You get an adaptor with the new sim so just do a sim swap.

Ok so that's the reason why you guys recommend a sim swap.

So are you guys saying if I just get the old sim cut down to micro it won't be LTE enabled?

Do I keep my airtime if I sim swap?

 

[Pho3nix]

Ok so that's the reason why you guys recommend a sim swap.

So are you guys saying if I just get the old sim cut down to micro it won't be LTE enabled?

Do I keep my airtime if I sim swap?

Yes you keep your airtime.

 

[cavedog]

Ok so that's the reason why you guys recommend a sim swap.

So are you guys saying if I just get the old sim cut down to micro it won't be LTE enabled?

Do I keep my airtime if I sim swap?

Yes the new simcards are Micro sim break outs. So it's a regular size sim that is cut for micro sim. So just press the micro sim out when using the sim in a phone that needs a micro sim and them press it back into the adaptor when you need the old regular size simcard.....