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Xarpolis

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I don't think that's possible. The make the iPhones so that you can't get to the battery or SIM card. It's all locked within their case. When you buy the phone, it's pre-installed so that you never get a chance to fuck with it.
 
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Xarpolis_sl said:
I don't think that's possible. The make the iPhones so that you can't get to the battery or SIM card. It's all locked within their case. When you buy the phone, it's pre-installed so that you never get a chance to fuck with it.
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iphones have had removable sims since at least the iphone 4.
 
Folanlron

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My first gen Iphone I had, you could remove the SIM card... my first one the screen died the replacement Iphone package came with a paperclip too remove the old SIM card lol
 
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iPhone has always had a removable SIM. No removable battery, but meh, easy enough to do yourself if you choose to do so. Just watch out for them wireless antennas.
 
Siliconemelons

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the sim slot is that little squareish thing on the side with a pin hole next to it... you can buy a sim slot removal tool...or a paperclip or anything else the size to stick in there and push some to pop it out.

the iPhone 5 and my wife's 6 are mini/micro SIMS while my BlackBerry Q10 was the standard sim popped out of its credit card size thing....remember the old phones where you slotted them into the bottom of the phone- the whole credit card size thing.

- you can buy them if you need from the Verizon store.

what IS cool, that is kinda an advancement is that they now use the LTE Simcard as an overwrite to the MEID etc. before you had to sync your MEID of the CDMA phone to your line, then tell it the LTE sim info to get everything to sync and work- now on Verizon the LTE sim is the master for your line- whatever LTE sim you attach to your line- pop it in a phone and it takes and pushes the MEID CMDA stuff to that line- so it kinda acts like how the rest of the cell world (GSM) has been working.
 
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Not sure if sarcastic or not but both sprint and Verizon still operate CDMA networks in addition to their LTE offerings. Sprint does cdma/3G at 1900mhz, and lte at 800 and 2.5 MHz although it has begun using lte at 1900mhz as well (ie: sprint spark uses multiple frequencies at once and most of the complaints about sprint coverage is that both 1.9 ghz and 2.5ghz don't pass through buildings very well, so until lte is turned on nationwide at 800 and 1900mhz in all bands that won't change) but there is nothing inherently wrong with CDMA versus gsm.

It's like saying Intel is better than AMD regardless of the actual capability of the device.
 
Vaclav

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Sprint is turning off 800 for CDMA somewhat soon though aren't they? Something like March next year I thought?
 
Alkorin

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No, not being sarcastic. I honestly thought that pretty much everyone had dropped CDMA in favour of GSM a long time ago.
 
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xadion_sl said:
lol as quallcomm makes ALL the antennas lol-- the CDMA core is not going anywhere as sprint/Verizon is not going to remake their entire voice and 2->3g data network
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Well, technically this isn't just a CDMA problem... LTE is incompatible with 2g/3g GSM as well, so in order to roll out the most reliable and highest throughput data networks, ALL providers will be transitioning over their 2g/3g networks... Eventually.... But it won't be for a long time, and will be fought even harder than people fought against digital television.

edit:AT Tech News and Analysis
 
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This will probably become more common (cannibalizing 2G/3G to boost LTE) now that VoLTE is starting to see wider adoption. But there is a whole (huge) generation of phones that don't do VoLTE, so it'll be a while.
 
Stave

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Supposedly Verizon's release date is 10/23. Fucking Verizon, always behind the game.
 
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Not sure what is going on with my phone but it has been having issues staying connected to LTE. What will happen is it loses LTE and will swap over to H (HSPA) and be stuck on there until I reboot my phone. This has happened several times over the past few weeks in different locations. It happened again while I was sitting here at my desk, so I left it alone to see if it would swap back to LTE, and it never did. As soon as I rebooted it it went back to LTE and is fine now.

I have the Nexus 5 and am on T-Mobile for reference.

Anyone else have this issue or have any idea what could be causing it?
 
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