American Mobile (cell) Phones.

[Jacx]

Ok, please tell me that some of you guys have to use sim cards for your cell phones.

Or is it really that backyard bumble fuck out there:blank:

[JaiJai]

:blush: just cuz my phone doesn't have one doesn't mean we dont' have sims cards around here :unsure:

[PuhLa]

I got a SIM card in mines

[Puppy Dogs and Ice Cream]

i have to use sim card

[Psychostyle]

yims sim card

its just the companies jacx, some use em, some dont cingular uses chips sprint and verizon do not ( i think)

[Buddha]

yims sim card

its just the companies jacx, some use em, some dont cingular uses chips sprint and verizon do not ( i think)
Steve's right sprint and verizon dont but Nextel does

[richgoose]

sprint has a proprietary "PCS" network

Cingular (AT&T) uses GSM phones... I'm not sure if thats the "chip" in those phones is the same as your SIM card

Verizon uses Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) phones. I have had a verizon wireless phone for 7 years (all motorola equipment). I can attest to the reliability and accessability of this technology... I have only ever been through 2 places in the country where i didn't have verizon service... and even then I didn't incur roaming costs. And I have driven all over the eastern half of this nation.

so why do i need a chip?

[Jacx]

thing is, whose without a sim card...if ur phone breaks and u need it becuase of work or whatever...im my case i whip out the sim and shove it into a spare phone and im working fine till my replacement comes...what do u do when ur simless..u telling me u just wait..what about saved contacts etc that can be moved via sim etc???

[Metall_fan]

t-mobile uses sim cards
I have verizon which doesn't use sims and it costs $20 plus possibly time and headache if you want to switch your phone