GSM Cell Phone With Dual SIM Card Slot

[tb75252]

First of all, let me state that I know close to nothing about cell phones.

I might be interested in purchasing a quad-band (GSM), dual-SIM card cell phone. The idea is that if I have to travel to a European country I could purchase a second SIM card there and install it in the cell phone.

Questions:

1) What are the caveats about purchasing such a phone? For instance: Will the cell phone monitor incoming calls to either SIM card phone number? What about using SIM cards from two different providers?

2) Where would I find an online site that has tested and recommends particular brands/models? Paramount for me, besides cost, is voice quality, ease of setup and use. (I only need a phone that handles voice and text, so I am not looking for a smart phone.)

3) How do I know if a phone for sale is a smart phone or a standard cell phone? For instance, is this a "regular" cell phone or a smart phone? http/

4) Can you recommend a basic cell phone with the characteristics that I mentioned?

 

[JackNaylorPE]

Mt Treo 650 had dies after 7 years of usage and one of the things I used to do with that was just yank my SIM .... not for the reasons you state but because it was an expensive smart-phone, when id be boating or mountain biking I didn't want to carry it with me. So when ever doing something risky ..... to my phone, not me .....Id pop my SIm into a cheap $29.99 phone and take that..... Manufacturers have since however tried to make that process particularly difficult.

 

[WesleyBishop]

First of all, let me state that I know close to nothing about cell phones.

I might be interested in purchasing a quad-band (GSM), dual-SIM card cell phone. The idea is that if I have to travel to a European country I could purchase a second SIM card there and install it in the cell phone.

Questions:

1) What are the caveats about purchasing such a phone? For instance: Will the cell phone monitor incoming calls to either SIM card phone number? What about using SIM cards from two different providers?

2) Where would I find an online site that has tested and recommends particular brands/models? Paramount for me, besides cost, is voice quality, ease of setup and use. (I only need a phone that handles voice and text, so I am not looking for a smart phone.)

3) How do I know if a phone for sale is a smart phone or a standard cell phone? For instance, is this a "regular" cell phone or a smart phone? http/

4) Can you recommend a basic cell phone with the characteristics that I mentioned?

1. This article answers most of the questions you will have about dual sim. LINK
2.Chinavasion Has a lot of dual sim phones at good prices.
3. The link to the phone you provided is for a non smart phone the only way to tell is by reading if it says it is Android, Apple, or Blackberry then it is smart if it does not mention a operating system then it is non smart.
4. I can recommend several

$68.50 Rugged Waterproof Mobile Phone $69.42 Senior Citizen Phone
$40.16 Small Sports Car Mobile Phone
$85.31 Rugged Design Mobile Phone

 

[beyondlogic]

First of all, let me state that I know close to nothing about cell phones.

I might be interested in purchasing a quad-band (GSM), dual-SIM card cell phone. The idea is that if I have to travel to a European country I could purchase a second SIM card there and install it in the cell phone.

Questions:

1) What are the caveats about purchasing such a phone? For instance: Will the cell phone monitor incoming calls to either SIM card phone number? What about using SIM cards from two different providers?

2) Where would I find an online site that has tested and recommends particular brands/models? Paramount for me, besides cost, is voice quality, ease of setup and use. (I only need a phone that handles voice and text, so I am not looking for a smart phone.)

3) How do I know if a phone for sale is a smart phone or a standard cell phone? For instance, is this a "regular" cell phone or a smart phone? http/

4) Can you recommend a basic cell phone with the characteristics that I mentioned?

The issues are as follows some providers do not like gsm amd some like cdma

others like diffrent frequencys most providers can tell you what frequency they like