Suppose you only use your phone with the earbuds anyway, and almost never use the phone to begin with....but have and use your iPad constantly for work, and also want to keep the same number for the few messages you get per year. For whatever my purpose and needs are, to make it simple, my DREAM device is an 12.9" iPhone. PLEASE hold off on the jokes, the 3-4 business calls I'd take a YEAR would be using my Airpods anyway. This is a serious exploration of what obstacles and/or options actually exist for such a device.
I've seen people put lighted Apple logos in iPhones where there is so little room to begin with, and change almost any and all of the parts... people can really do a lot these days.
What specifically prevents me (or some professional) from using an iPhone's cellular "stuff" and putting it into an iPad where there is so much more room, and already has a SIM card spot? Does anyone know the actual thing that keeps people from doing that?
I don't care about Touch ID, 3D touch, or Apple Pay, and am happy to use any version of the iPhones, from the 5s to 8Plus as a donor, whichever would make the cellular part easiest to move over. I would also be ok with sacrificing some of the speaker performance if some of that room inside the iPad would get used up.
I would pay good money (more than most would think it's worth) if I could have the iPhone sim-reading and calling capabilities moved over into an iPad Pro. I get almost no calls anyway, but I have had the same phone number for 10+ years, and want to keep it since I only get 2 or 3 inquiries or voice mails per year, but they are important to have come to my original number (business related) and I would NOT need to hold it up to my head to take calls, since I'd be using Airpods or headphones for calls anyway, and I'd have a chance to use my phone's data package on the iPad when I'd need it, and would only have to take one item with me when traveling, or around the building while working.
I know it sounds like a silly idea, but I'm an older guy with $ to spend on something like this, if it's just a matter of donor devices, money, and patience to have a professional figure it out, I'd like to know. There are 5 or 6 other people who do the same kind of work as I do who would also love something like this, so if there's a possibility to do this, we'd want to know.
Or if there's something more simple that prevents this from happening, maybe someone can let me know what it is. I figured this site is the best place to start since there's nothing online about other people trying that I could find.
Thanks in advance!
I've seen people put lighted Apple logos in iPhones where there is so little room to begin with, and change almost any and all of the parts... people can really do a lot these days.
What specifically prevents me (or some professional) from using an iPhone's cellular "stuff" and putting it into an iPad where there is so much more room, and already has a SIM card spot? Does anyone know the actual thing that keeps people from doing that?
I don't care about Touch ID, 3D touch, or Apple Pay, and am happy to use any version of the iPhones, from the 5s to 8Plus as a donor, whichever would make the cellular part easiest to move over. I would also be ok with sacrificing some of the speaker performance if some of that room inside the iPad would get used up.
I would pay good money (more than most would think it's worth) if I could have the iPhone sim-reading and calling capabilities moved over into an iPad Pro. I get almost no calls anyway, but I have had the same phone number for 10+ years, and want to keep it since I only get 2 or 3 inquiries or voice mails per year, but they are important to have come to my original number (business related) and I would NOT need to hold it up to my head to take calls, since I'd be using Airpods or headphones for calls anyway, and I'd have a chance to use my phone's data package on the iPad when I'd need it, and would only have to take one item with me when traveling, or around the building while working.
I know it sounds like a silly idea, but I'm an older guy with $ to spend on something like this, if it's just a matter of donor devices, money, and patience to have a professional figure it out, I'd like to know. There are 5 or 6 other people who do the same kind of work as I do who would also love something like this, so if there's a possibility to do this, we'd want to know.
Or if there's something more simple that prevents this from happening, maybe someone can let me know what it is. I figured this site is the best place to start since there's nothing online about other people trying that I could find.
Thanks in advance!
