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What does your 2 X SIM (or 1 SIM+esim) setup look like? Calls/text with one carrier, data with another? Something else?…
How Do You Have Your Dual SIM Services Setup?
Flyufools on 04/01/2023 - 23:17
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Personal sim and drug dealing sim
Which one do I text for sick dell deals?
Lol. Bloody autocorrect.
drugdell dealing.Sorry for the confusion.
Drug dealing SIM and pimping SIM, lives are at stake if they get mixed up :/
Dim sim and racing sim
Girlfriend 1 and Girlfriend 2
On a related note, does anyone use 2 numbers for whatsapp on iphone? I think the only way to do this is with by using the whatsapp business app, but does that tell everyone it's a business account? Seems too weird.
Everyone uses whatsapp, and it's so easy to set up a 2nd account on android, that I kinda got comfy with having a burner whatsapp account to use for potential crazies on dating apps, gumtree randos, drug deals, and real estate agents. Kinda like having a junk email address, for real estate agents. Most of the time I disable the 2nd sim entirely, to save battery.
So it seems like a big waste not to be able to run dual accounts on iphone, given that the cell service is less important. But I've been considering an iphone, and I'm hoping I'm missing something?
Everyone uses whatsapp
No they don't.
Ah yes, … What I see out of my window, is the whole world….
Sure not literally. And not everyone has a phone in the first place. But whatsapp accounts for about 90% of my personal mobile communication, and has seemed to be the default for most new people I meet, so I don't believe it has insignificant uptake in the community.
I could ask the same about other messengers I use like Signal, Telegram, Line, Wechat, Kakao, FB Messenger, and others that I don't use. But as I haven't encountered those with anywhere near the same ubiquity when connecting with strangers, except while living overseas, the issue applies somewhat differently with those apps, in my personal experience. I know this isn't true for all people and other circles will have a different experience.
Apologies if you took umbrage at the blanket statement, but please don't get too hung up on hyperbole when it's meant as such.
That makes sense. Cheers
Samsung also started getting weird with dual Whatsapp from sometime in early 2021 forcing us to use WA Business for the second account. The issue was that media from the second account cannot be found via any file manager. Looks like one of the updates screwed up the local file structure for Whatsapp.
Something always seemed a bit weird with the file structure of the dual app. I seem to remember the same issue with Huawei, but when I look now it seems fine.
I have had this issue with pixels though, because they don't do dual apps at all, and you have to use a work profile instead. In this case, I found a kinda simple way to access files is to simply send them between your 2 accounts.BTW for work profile without WA Business, you can use Island. This creates a sandbox and let's you clone ANY app
2 sims, 1 work and 1 private.
2 whats apps, 1 work and the other private.
all in all i find android devices have the win on supporting 2 lives, work and play really well.
SIM 1 Phone / SMS ($150 a year) - Woolies SIM 100GB for high speed data when needed and for 10% off shop
eSIM Data ($5 a month through ongoing $10 discount)- 5GB (slowed to 1.5MBps when exceeded for unltd. data)
Who is your Sim 2 through?
Telstra - grandfathered $15 5GB data only Sim
I have all my calls text etc through my personal except work calls and sms. That group of contacts goes via the eSIM.
Data i occasionally flick between just to ensure i dont run out on one vs the other.Sim 1 in work phone
Sim 2 in private phone
Same here haha.
Work phone is paid for; there's no way I'm going to use my personal phone for work stuff especially in this age of MS Teams.
Work and private - work gets switched off outside business hours
Sim 1 = calls and txt only. I rarely use the monthly 4gb data for this Sim because it's slow in my area so the data just accumulates in the data bank.
Sim 2 = dataSIM 1 = My main number. Have been rotating through various SIM deals for a while, with enough SIM cards in my drawer to keep doing this until well into next year.
SIM 2 = Something on a different network to SIM 1. If SIM 1 isn't on the Telstra network (wholesale generally suffices), then SIM 2 will be something that is.I'll often have a third SIM in another handset, on a different network to SIM's 1 & 2. eg; Currently SIM 1 is Aussie BB (Optus), SIM 2 is Belong (Telstra Wholesale) and SIM 3 is Kogan (Vodafone).
(I haven't had a work phone since 2019, and I retired last year anyway.)
The first person mentioning the 3rd in the comment. Why not add the 4th as most phones have dual slots now?
The next-best dual SIM phone that I have only does 4G + 3G, only does VoLTE on the Vodafone network and doesn't do VoWiFi.
Work and personal sims