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guru_ck

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Jan 24, 2005
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Bay Area, CA
So my story is that I have an iPhone 3G S and iPhone 4. I needed to get the numbers swapped between the two but since they use different types of SIM cards I wasn't able to swap them myself. So I went to an AT&T store in a strip mall and they were basically like we can't swap the numbers in our system using the exiting SIM cards. You will need a new regular SIM and micro SIM but we only have micro SIMs for the iPad right now. He told me to come back tomorrow (when the sky will be falling I imagine considering it's launch day) as that's when they they'll have them in stock. I argued with him saying that they could just provide me with an iPad SIM and that a SIM is a SIM. He didn't care and said I was lucky that I had gotten my iPhone a day early. I told him that Apple actually cares about there customers and had I ordered from AT&T I probably would of been in a worse situation and then I walked out.

Determined not to give up I called an AT&T store at my local mall who informed me that they have been sending their customers to Apple to get new micro SIMs. Sure enough I walked into Apple and they gave me one for free. Then I headed to AT&T in the mall and they took care of me. They were all so jealous but a lot more helpful than the first store I went to. Also it was funny to see 10 people lined up in front of the Apple store. I felt like taking a picture of them with my new iPhone 4 but that would just be cruel.

The jist of the story is: If you need to swap numbers between your new iPhone 4 and another device then go to Apple to get a new micro SIM. Hope that helps some people!
 
This helped allot!

I am doing upgrade swaps on two lines tomorrow I would have never thought to ask apple for a sim thanks a bunch!
 
This is totally wrong. All you need is the IMEI number from the iPhone 4 and they'll be able to port the number from your old line over to the iPhone 4.
 
This is totally wrong. All you need is the IMEI number from the iPhone 4 and they'll be able to port the number from your old line over to the iPhone 4.

Not if you've already activated the iPhone 4 against the original number that it shipped with jackass. Once a SIM is activated IT CAN NEVER BE REUSED AGAIN.
 
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