Need new mobile "dumb" phone immediately

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Hi,
I just dropped my "dumb" mobile phone down the toilet and now it doesnt work.
I need another phone immediately.
Can i just go to an EE shop, buy a new phone, and put the sim card into it and its job done?

Its not a smartphone, just a dumbphone and i only want another dumbphone.
 
What if i order a vodafone mobile phone....i am with EE...what happens there?
 
Thanks, the Argos onces are not useful because either they are...
1...Smartphones
2....Locked to a provider eg vodafone (i am with EE)
3..Have the wrong SIM card size.

...Or can i go into an EE shop and ask them to chage the SIM to the right size ? (i have an account with EE)

Also, i am not Sure if i should get a 2G or 4G phone?....my now_dead phone was a Alcatel 2057D
 
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treez said:
Thanks, the Argos onces are not useful because either they are...
1...Smartphones
2....Locked to a provider eg vodafone (i am with EE)
3..Have the wrong SIM card size.

...Or can i go into an EE shop and ask them to chage the SIM to the right size ? (i have an account with EE)

Also, i am not Sure if i should get a 2G or 4G phone?....my now_dead phone was a Alcatel 2057D
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No phone is locked anymore
 
treez said:
Thanks, the Argos onces are not useful because either they are...
1...Smartphones
2....Locked to a provider eg vodafone (i am with EE)
3..Have the wrong SIM card size.

...Or can i go into an EE shop and ask them to chage the SIM to the right size ? (i have an account with EE)

Also, i am not Sure if i should get a 2G or 4G phone?....my now_dead phone was a Alcatel 2057D
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There's a sim free section, filter from lowest price and can see lots of TCL and Nokia phones online starting from £17.99.

SIM size, if too small and urgent can always pick up a free one and just use adaptors from that to "size up", not a perfect solution but might work in a pinch. That or pop into EE store if that's close and they might have some "dumb" phones in stock and help with the SIM.
 
Thanks, do you think my nano SIM card will be "dead" because i dropped the whole phone in water?
 
Thanks, the phone has strangeley started working again...but i really need it not to fail next week, as i have contractor agencies ringing up.....so can i buy a new dumbphone and just get another EE sim card and just not fit it until this phone breaks down again? (which i suspect it will)

So in other words, i am wishing to have a "reserve phone", ready to use if this phone suddenly stops working. (but obviously i want it on the same EE account as my "now dry" phone.)
Is this possible? ie, Can you just get another duplicate SIM for this purpose? Sorry , but it seems such a strange thing to explain as its so open to misinterpretation due to my poor words, i must apologise.
 
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Needs "dumb" (i.e. cheap, doesn't track your activity) phone.
"Dropped" phone down toilet (while flushing something else at the same time?)
"Contractor agencies" phoning up

Definitely not a dealer :cry:
 
Thanks, but dumbphones can be tracked....i am regularly tracked by a representative of a company that i used to work for.
 
treez said:
Thanks, but dumbphones can be tracked....i am regularly tracked by a representative of a company that i used to work for.
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Are you saying someone you did business with is stalking you, so you're using an untrackable device to avoid him?

Sounds legit.
 
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