I have an iPhone 11 from Koodo with a nano SIM for everyday use. When I travel, I move the SIM to a cheap Android phone because it’s larger (good for map reading when you’re visually impaired), less valuable, and has an SD card for lots of storage. A month ago I dropped the Android phone, so I ordered a new one from an online retailer. The specs didn’t disclose that it has no SIM tray. It has arrived now, but I can’t move the nano SIM from the iPhone to the new phone anymore. I gather this type of Android phone requires an eSIM. As long as the iPhone with the regular sim card is powered off when I need the travel phone, can I now obtain an eSIM voucher and use it to enable the Android phone to be used when I travel? Or would that in some way nuke the nano SIM in the iPhone, rendering that phone unusable? I only use one phone at a time, so the swapping of the SIM worked until now.
You have one sim to one line only. Switching to esim is a sim card transfer.
What phone is this? Basically the only esim only phone I'm aware of is iPhone 14 variants in select markets. I'd be shocked to see a budget esim android at this point in time.
No it’s just a $120 budget Android phone so that’s why I was shocked to see there was no SIM tray. I purchased it on Aliexpress just like my last Umidigi phone that worked just fine. I was really stumped when I looked at all the edges to find no tray or hole to stick the usual pin into. I can’t send it back to China because the postage would be outrageous in that direction. If they’d indicated it had no SIM tray I would never have ordered it.
So I guess I’m screwed out of the $120. It’s usable as a music player and it can connect on WIFI so it’s good for email, but without cellular it’s not much good for travel.
Does the phone have a removable battery/back cover?
Thinking maybe the SIM slot might be hiding in the battery compartment under the battery.
You may well be right. I broke a fingernail trying to pry the back of the phone off, as the tiny “manual” or pamphlet that came with it indicated nothing and the vendor’s website actually shows the typical tray for a SIM and a micro SD card, but look what I find when I finally managed to pry off the rear cover.
***picture removed due to visible IMEI
Looks like a dual-SIM phone with a slot for an SD memory card.
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