Swapping SIM cards between cell phones

[spearmint]

[quote BigGuynRusty][quote richorlin]Oh... and save your contacts to the card before you swap out.
SIM's are pitifully lacking in space.
They haven't kept up with what the phones can do, or hold these days.
Won't even hold 10% of my contacts.

BGnR
How many contacts will a sim hold?

[AlphaDog]

My son sent me a link to a phone he's bidding on, and the detailed specs for it say the SIM card for that particular one will hold 250 contacts, each one containing space for five phone numbers, an e-mail address, a Web address, a street address, job title and company, birthday, and notes. I was looking for something that gave its size in MBs or GBs, but I couldn't find that. The phone itself holds 500 contacts. Or so it says in the fine print.

I'm not sure they're all the same, because at least this one appears to be pre-formatted.

Personally, I don't know 250 people. Well, maybe I do, but not 250 that I'd put in my Contact list on a phone. I'm more the five contact type. OK, six, maybe.

[BigGuynRusty]

[quote AlphaDog]My son sent me a link to a phone he's bidding on, and the detailed specs for it say the SIM card for that particular one will hold 250 contacts, each one containing space for five phone numbers, an e-mail address, a Web address, a street address, job title and company, birthday, and notes. I was looking for something that gave its size in MBs or GBs, but I couldn't find that. The phone itself holds 500 contacts. Or so it says in the fine print.

I'm not sure they're all the same, because at least this one appears to be pre-formatted.

Personally, I don't know 250 people. Well, maybe I do, but not 250 that I'd put in my Contact list on a phone. I'm more the five contact type. OK, six, maybe.
All SIM cards are the same in the network type.
Frpm WIKI:
"At the end of 2006 the most common GSM SIM in the US is 64KB - this stemmed from Nov 2004 when the Cingular and AT&T merger triggered the supply of 64KB SIMs over 32KB to better support both networks (and make them look like one)."
That isn't the SIM card, that is the data card.
I have a 1GB in mine, factory was 128MB.

**EDIT**
Those specs are most likely the internal memory if there is no memory card slot.

BGnR

[AlphaDog]

I suppose it isn't totally legal, but this is copied/pasted directly from the site where the phone is being described:

"The 500-contact phone book is small, but you can save an additional 250 names on the SIM card. Each entry holds five phone numbers, an e-mail address, ..."

I only know what I read.

[BigGuynRusty]

[quote AlphaDog]I suppose it isn't totally legal, but this is copied/pasted directly from the site where the phone is being described:

"The 500-contact phone book is small, but you can save an additional 250 names on the SIM card. Each entry holds five phone numbers, an e-mail address, ..."

I only know what I read.
Maybe if you said what phone is I could look it up at a real tech site instead of a marketing site.

BGnR

[AlphaDog]

Sony Ericsson Z520a

However, I was simply responding to 'Minty's question and am not personally interested. I could memorize my six contacts if I had to. It was others who were discussing the amount of information a SIM card could hold.

[BigGuynRusty]

[quote AlphaDog]I could memorize my six contacts if I had to.
I like level headed folk!

BGnR