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I just got back from purchasing a new(er) Nokia 521 to put my old T-Mobile SIM card in from my old ancient flip-phone and I find that it's a totally different (smaller) gig now.
Part of the beauty of T-Mobile in the past for me was the simplicity of taking out my SIM card from whatever phone I was with and trying a new one with simply removing it and putting it in a new phone.
So is this just the way it is now?
Did this happen recently, and are all T-Mobile phones released from this point going to utilize these smaller SIM cards?
Most new phones use the smaller sim card. They sell an adapter to put the smaller sim into, so it still fits in the phones that still use a larger sim. They also make a cutter that can cut down a larger sim to make it fit the smaller sim phones or you can go back to T-Mobile and buy a new small sim. If you sim is old then better to buy a new sim since the newer ones are better protected.
In contrast to the above statement, a SIM card cutter is very cheap and very easy to use. Most of the kits on ebay & Amazon include an adapter to use the now-reduced SIM in a regular SIM slot. There are 3 sizes, the original full sized SIM i just know as a SIM, the mid size is called mini SIM and the smallest (iPhone etc.) is called micro SIM.
One of my employees damaged his old t-mobile phone and decided to buy a new updated smartphone. The SIM cards were not the same but they did a SIM to SIM transfer right at the t-mobile store. All his information is now on the new smaller SIM card and it took only a few minutes.
Yeah, go to a tmobile store....they usually give you one free, they'll do everything to make it work.
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