Re: [tlug] Best communications-enabled, efficient visit

[Joe Larabell <fred62@example.com>]

My BLU allows both SIMs to be online at once. Not only that but you can set which one gets priority for outgoing voice and for data connections (unless, of course, only one of the SIMs is enabled for data). Incoming calls from either SIM ring on the phone. All the dual-SIM settings pages and notifications are blue/orange color coded so you know which came from where.

This is the model I bought back in 2014 (from Amazon US). It seems it's no longer available but I'm sure there are similar phones available from the same maker:

  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00ENLX4GE/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1

If the phone was waterproof and had a FeliCA chip inside, I'd happily ditch my DoCoMo phone and carry that one around all the time.

On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 9:42 PM, Benjamin Kowarsch <trijezdci@example.com> wrote:

On 16 June 2016 at 20:28, Darren Cook wrote:

A dual-sim, sim-free phone gives you the best of both :-)

Darren, it certainly saves you the hassle of fiddling with tiny SIMs when you want to switch between them, but last time I checked, there were no dual-transceiver phones that would allow you to have both SIMs signed in to a network concurrently. You had to switch between them. While one SIM was signed in, the other was not.

Unless this has changed and there are now dual-transceiver phones available, you would have to regularly switch between the two SIMs to check the other account and if you had a missed call on the inactive SIM you wouldn't necessarily see it as a missed call even later when you switch to that SIM. Even if the phone was able to tell you about a missed call while the SIM was inactive, you would not be able to react to it until you actually switched.

But if you are telling me there are dual-transceiver smart phones on the market now, I will certainly check those out next time I need to replace any of the phones I have.

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