2 phones/1 number?

bigredshark · 17 Apr 2006 at 03:35

hey guys,

here's a quick question and one that i surprisingly don't know the answer too. I need a phone that give me decent web access and email in addition to being, you know, a phone. so the obvious bet is the nokia 9500 or 9300.

thing is, going out in the evening, there's no way on god's earth it'll fit in my pocket. so i needa different phone (motarola l7 makes some sense or a nokia e60 if they ever turn up...)

thing is, i need to get be contactable on one number all the time (including texts), so, is there anyway to put both phones on the same number?

I know i could swap sim cards but thats plain crap as a solution, i could also just get a blackberry for email and web but i want one device and one charger to drag round the world not two. i know there are other phones which do web and email that are smaller but i'm bent on a keyboard of some sort.

oh, and if it all synced with google calender that would be grand...

Energize · 17 Apr 2006 at 06:15

I think you'd be better off with an xda.

bigredshark · 17 Apr 2006 at 06:45

thought about it, but no keyboard, too big and i'm not a huge fan of windows mobile. and an xda means o2 though i suppose i could aquire one elsewhere.

does anybody know about the two phone on one number thing?

Tomsk · 17 Apr 2006 at 07:03

http://www.orange.co.uk/business/corporate/using/callmanagement/singlenumber.html

HTH

Alternatively you could just get a PAYG SIM in your second phone and have your main phone redirect to the second phone. I think this only works for voice calls though.

bigredshark · 17 Apr 2006 at 07:20

cheers, thats handy, looks as close as i'll get, just got to work out if its close enough now....

Strikeforce · 17 Apr 2006 at 10:56

Vodafone do a "Multi Sim" but the problem is you dont get any MMS or GPRS features on it, and you have to pay line rental for each sim and you also have to activate each sim card, prob easier if you just use to sim cards.

Dolph · 17 Apr 2006 at 11:01

Tomsk said:
http://www.orange.co.uk/business/corporate/using/callmanagement/singlenumber.html

HTH

Alternatively you could just get a PAYG SIM in your second phone and have your main phone redirect to the second phone. I think this only works for voice calls though.

Single number works really well, but it is only available to business customers,so you have to be able to provide business proofs to ensure your account is setup the correct way (normally a photocopy of a business chequebook or the company registration number)

You also can still use all the features (such as GPRS and MMS) on the primary phone, and no need to activate between the two phones (It routes to the other when one is unavailable, and you say at the start which you want calls to go through to first)

Energize · 17 Apr 2006 at 20:01

bigredshark said:
thought about it, but no keyboard, too big and i'm not a huge fan of windows mobile. and an xda means o2 though i suppose i could aquire one elsewhere.

does anybody know about the two phone on one number thing?

They do have a keyboard, and are small your just not looking at the right models, you can buy the same versions of these phones under a different name from any network.