You pick the plan (sim) you want to use from your available plans (sims, e or otherwise) that are currently enabled on your phone in Settings/Cellular/Cellular Data.

-David

Why wouldn't CH SIMs roam in FR?

Either you have to add an expensive roaming package or pay high per MB rates.

Or it has low roaming caps.

50 fr�ngli for unlimited European data roaming for 30 days

"The top 10 revenue-generating smartphones in the first quarter of 2021 were from Apple and Samsung."

https://www.gizchina.com/2021/05/23/...ei-has-a-spot/

The SE 2020 is selling pretty well.

Apart from the Huawei

The article indicates the 10 phones account for 46% of the revenue and 21% of units for the quarter. Lots of units in the sub $400 category.

https://www.phonearena.com/news/best...-2021_id132273

Cross-referencing, no Huaweiin the top 10 phones by shipment volume... (Xiaomi jumped onto the list tho).

Looks like Huawei was making a pretty penny on their P40 lineup without moving as high a # of units.

And the iPhone mini being a �disappointment� with those profit figures... Any manufacturer except Apple would love that. Though, interesting that both it and the iPhone SE both dropped off the volume list.

Did Apple try to retain production capacity/components for its highest margin phones and related service plans, with that meaning restrained production volumes for the lower margin iPhones that were on that list? I have liked the SE option even as my primary iPhones are not that; with the SE option, I've saved money not only on the phones but also on skipping the AppleCare+ stuff.

AA employees to get iPads and iPhones. Some of them will be 5G, meaning iPhone 12.

5G iPads would be $1000-1500 devices, but so maybe those would only be for pilots?

https://viewfromthewing.com/american...nes-and-ipads/

Apparently DL has given all flight attendants iPhone 12s.

https://viewfromthewing.com/american...nes-and-ipads/

I want to get spouse the new iPhone 13 for birthday. Full pay, no trade, no upgrade discounts for this purchase. When I go to check out at Apple.com I can choose ATT (our provider) or no provider. If I select ATT, it asks for wireless number and last four of social. I tried entering my own to see what would happen and it sent a passcode to my phone. I don’t want to do this and spouse get the alert. But entering ATT info does get me a $30 discount (activation for existing customer discount). Hoping one of you guys might know a workaround. Bc these don’t use physical SIMs I’m not sure how I’d do this any other way.

As an aside, if I get a fully paid ATT iPhone, I can unlock after the first month or whatever, right?

You can request the unlock on the AT&T site at any time. I have never ordered a surprise new phone so I cannot answer about the text message.

If you get an unlocked phone, by fully paying the price up front, you should be able to put in a SIM or even get the carrier to provision an eSIM with the existing number.

Yeah I don't know if buying through AT&T can avoid those notifications. Maybe there are account settings to disable or block those.

But if your'e willing to pay the full price up front, then no reason to buy through AT&T unless your local stores have them in stock while nearest Apple stores may not.


I moved from iPhone 12 to 13 Pro Max. I had a T-Mobile eSIM. When I set up my new phone, I transferred all the data and settings from the old to the new iPhone through short-range wireless transfer. As part of this transfer process, the new iPhone detected the eSIM in the old iPhone and asked if I wanted to transfer it. I tapped yes and it just happened.

Got an email from T-Mobile saying my account had been transferred from IMSI number x to IMSI number y.

I was actually going to buy it from Apple.com for pickup bc want to use PayPal on my Freedom for 5x. That’s the website that sends the damn alert and you have to get the alert to put in a passcode. If I get no provider then it’s $30 more. I think I may just have to sneak off with spouse’s phone at 2AM or something. To save the $30. Lol. Good to know about the transfer of data. The existing phone is an 8 so this is a multilevel upgrade! Not sure if that one can transfer the info like the 12.

If I can’t manage to abscond with the phone to intercept the alert, then I’ll just get the unlocked one and suck up the $30. Even buying from ATt directly adds the $30.

I could be wrong on this, but I think carrier version is $30 cheaper on Apple.com because you will still have to pay a $30 activation fee to the carrier later. If you buy the non-carrier one, you can just move the sim card over from the old phone to the new one without even telling AT&T that you switched phone. I used to do this all the time when the phone got wet and had to into a bag of rice LOL. Switch sim to backup phone.

All the iPhones on apple.com are unlocked if you pay in full and not using the carrier finance plan. The only difference is that the carrier version will either come with e-sim or a SIM card that is registered to your carrier. That's why they asked for your phone number.