The new phone - Pixel 8 - is sim free so I bought a cheap Labara sim, which is paid monthly via my Paypal. We did this earlier with a Smarty sim for Mrs J's newly aquired iphone and it's worked well. Decided on a different supplier for mine because we might get cover on one where the other may not be getting signal? For instance when we are in "the wilds" in Devon or maybe up north of the Scottish central belt. I believe Lebara piggy back on Vodafone (get me, sounds like I know what I'm talking about) So would a Vodafone shop help?
I'll just give the finger print thing a go and see how it turns out - gona do the pin no too.
Thought hard about best protection and a folding case logically should give best protection. However it's bulky. I also have no inclination to carry cards etc anywhere near my phone - seems "silly" to me to be putting stuff like credit/debit cards in the same case as your phone, what if it gets stolen? everything is gone in one go and the thief might be able to clean you out more easily? My son in law is very "tech savvy" - unfortunately lives at the other end of the country to us - but I've floated my idea of the Spigen to him and am waiting on him getting back to me.
Anyway, the sim is due to arrive today or tomorrow, so things are hotting up. I've decided I'm going to try following this video:
and see how I get on - even the colour of the phone in it is the same "rose" as mine
That's a sound idea. I have two lines from my one phone currently - personal Vodafone and EE for work. Interesting as it can switch between them and sure enough, sometimes one has signal and the other doesn't. But for all intents and purposes, if you're going somewhere really rural or remote, chances are both have no signal. One benefit to the iPhone I must say is the satellite connection, I notice when there's a total lack of any phone service, the satellite option pops up. For emergency calls, but I believe they are expanding this to cover calls / normal texts as well to possibly one contact. They were supposed to charge for it after the first year in 2023... but then some legal complication of them being a 'telecoms' operator (if they charged for it) meant they'd have to hand over more data about calls etc and they refused so good on them for that. I wish other phone companies did this as it's a life saving feature. Especially for free.
For in-shop help... you could try, though I'm not sure. I know I used to use Giffgaff (piggybacking off of O2) which was much cheaper, but one of the ways they achieved that was by having no stores / support phone lines - it was all online back then. So perhaps Lebara is the same and deliberately separate from Vodafone - but you'll most likely get someone in there helpful enough that if they can help you, they probably will! (Look at me, believing in humanity and generosity! lol)
