You can still make free Skype to Skype calls within India, and you can still call mobiles and landlines in India from outside the country and make calls from India to other countries. Facebook has a calling feature with its standalone messenger app. So what are you waiting for? Just start using your old Android device to its full potential minus the SIM.
Go the Facebook way! You can continue Tweeting without a phone number. You can create a Twitter account and verify it via email as long as you are using Wi-Fi. It allows users to make calls over the Internet. You can port your old phone number into Google Voice, and still receive calls through Google Voice using an active Wi-Fi connection.
Apps like Hangouts let you make VoIP calls without any carrier involvement provided you have access to good Wi-Fi connections.
Now you know that you can continue to use your Android device to make and receive calls and messages, share videos etc. I am sure you already know that even without the internet too you can continue to play the pre-installed games, listen to music, click pictures with the mobile phone camera, use the clock and alarm, shoot videos, use the notepad etc.
In short you can use your old Android device like a Wi-Fi enabled tablet! The possibilities are endless with an old Android device. But, a device without a SIM card has its flip side too. Dropping your cell phone plan is not a good idea for everyone.
If you do not have an active SIM card in your phone:. Besides, the above mentioned apps, if you have tried other apps that continue to function seamlessly without a SIM or a cellular service, please do share with us.
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Reply Helpful Thread reply - more options Link to this Post. User profile for user: Allan Sampson Allan Sampson. This will prevent any data or internet access via a cellular network, and Data Roaming is off by default anyway. This will not prevent you from recieving or placing calls and the same for SMS. If you don't want to receive or place any calls, the same for SMS, and to ensure no data or internet access via a cellular network when roaming internationally without having to remove and keep the SIM card in a safe place, enable Airplane mode on your iPhone.
If you want to access an available wi-fi network you can turn on wi-fi access with Airplane node enabled keeping all other radios off.
If you need or want to access a GPS app, enabling Airplane mode will not work for this, but keeping Cellular Data turned off will prevent any data or internet access via a cellular network. If you aren't running iOS4. Ask a question Reset. I'm not sure if its related to not having a SIM card or if there is a temporary glitch with the windows store.
The IE icon takes her to the internet with no problems. The Netflix app on the phone says it has trouble loading titles and to retry; we keep retrying to connect but not working. Before removing the SIM card the only problems with this phone was audio, everything else worked fine.
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