Celebrating SIM Cards

It’s time to celebrate a little win.

The other day, my mom contacted me saying her 10-year-old iPhone wouldn’t turn on.

After getting a hold of the device and doing some family IT support, I concluded the battery was dead.

So I bought her a new (old) one on Walmart (SE 3rd gen., if you must know).

Her old phone used a SIM card, so I was expecting the process to go something like this:

  1. Take the SIM out of the old phone
  2. Put it in the new phone
  3. Setup the device
  4. Troubleshoot why there was no service
  5. Call my Mom’s carrier and work through the issue

But step 4 and 5 never happened.

The new phone “just” connected. I called her number. I texted it. Everything worked as expected.

Everything worked as expected.

Everything worked as expected.

I didn’t have to Google a single question.

I was floored.

Flabbergasted.

I know I shouldn’t have been because that’s how SIM cards are supposed to work, right? Like that’s the whole promise of a SIM card: you can seamlessly swap them between phones.

And in this case, the tech worked exactly as promised.

As I write this, I’m kind of amazed at how amazed I am that everything “just worked”.

Shout out to anyone who has ever worked on SIM card technology.

More things like this please :)