Comment by giancarlostoro
5 years ago
Wait what? You literally put a sim card into a phone for it to be treated as a cell number? Thats odd and interesting to me how does that work?
5 years ago
Wait what? You literally put a sim card into a phone for it to be treated as a cell number? Thats odd and interesting to me how does that work?
> You literally put a sim card into a phone for it to be treated as a cell number?
Well of course -- the SIM is the (as others have pointed out, "currently assigned", yada yada) phone number. So what else would any device with a working SIM slot be treated as, than a cellular device?
The SIM has its own phone number, so when they put it in a phone they can do "phone" things like make calls. In their laptop it's just for data.
Or to be really pedantic, 'is currently assigned a particular' phone number.
Since you can change phone number without changing SIM (I don't know if it's global, but in the UK you just text a certain number for a transfer 'PAC' code) and clone them.
It's harder than that in the US, but it's possible. Mostly it depends on the carrier's policy.
Or SMS. Calls may also work, depending on the modem.
For calls and sms you'd need a client configured for that modem. I think this is what callcenters use?
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I don't understand, isn't that how SIM cards are supposed to work ?
Instead of "phone" do you actually mean "laptop"? Interfacing with a SIM through a computer seems pretty Futuramaistic to me. How does _that_ work?
My laptop has a built in cellular modem, I find that being connected to the internet constantly is much more useful in a laptop form factor. Phones mostly just try to serve me ads in invasive ways and I'm not here for it.
AFAIK cell modems generally have functionality to send/receive SMSs, and you should be able to do that with the right software.
Completely agree about the walls of commercial surveillance closing in though.
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An increasing number of tablets and computers offer LTE. It was an option when I got my last gen iPad Mini, though I didn't need it.