dual sim cell phones

[Mike Kallies]

On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 4:47 PM, William Muriithi
<william.muriithi-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
>> I'm looking for a dual sim phone as I will be spending some time in the
>> states and would like my existing number to still work.
>>
>> Most of the dual sim phones are from china and apparently much of the
>> translation is not done. Some of them are allegedly not very good at
>> switching between sims.
>>
> Samsung has a dual SIM phone. Its a dumb phone, not smartphone in any way
> but work well and its interface is purely English.

They have a dual-sim Android phone too:

http://www.samsung.com/ae/consumer/mobile-phones/mobile-phones/dual-sim

It's sold in Germany:

http://www.amazon.de/Samsung-Smartphone-Prozessor-Touchscreen-microSD-Kartenslot/dp/B0096LU8AG

I've never tried it and not sure how to get it in Canada short of eBay.

But given the costs of a new phone, James' suggestion is reasonable.
Cheaper might be to have a second cheap, small feature phone.


-Mike
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