iPhone SE (2016) Would i be able to use a pre-paid iPhone SE as an iPod?

[ipaqman1]

That's not needed at all. You need the SIM for five minutes setting up an iPhone that is brand new or freshly reset, but once it is set up, you can remove the SIM and use it with WiFi only, like a real iPod. In the UK, you can buy SIM cards for £0.99 with no data or a tiny amount of data, and the idea is that you top them up for £10.00. They work just fine. Or a SIM that you took from another phone; set up your iPodPhone and put the SIM back into the other phone.

Based upon these comments about using the IPhone SE as an Ipod Touch, I confidentally purchased the Total Wireless SE deal at $129 at BestBuy instead of a new Touch for $189. My 3 year old Touch was losing battery life. I looked up the IFixit guide and saw it was a lot of work including desoldering to replace the battery. Replacing the battery in the SE is relatively simple.

During the SE setup, I did not need the sim card at all. Pulling out the sim card holder and leaving it out was enough. I still have the Total Wireless sim card in its sealed cardboard folder. I put the sim card holder back in the phone.

The new SE came with IOS 11.4.1, so it is relatively recent.

Compared to the 6th gen Touch, the SE has gps, touch id, larger battery, flush mounted camera, and rectangular case design that shows quality construction. The Passmark Performance Test shows Passmark 5555 for the Touch and 9760 for the SE.

Thank you for the help.