Semi-related question:
I'll be travelling in the summer (Italy), have an unlocked phone, and know I can get a sim and data plan at Wind, Tim, Vodofone, wherever.
What I would like to do is somehow keep my existing phone number working to some degree. I am on iOS, and my phone is NOT dual sim.
For phone calls and voice messages, I plan to forward calls to my Canadian cell number to a Fongo number, which is a free service that lets you get a Canadian internet phone number. Fongo also does free long distance within Canada, wherever you are in the world. But who receives phone calls these days, anyway?
For text messaging, Fido used to have an included service called "Extreme Text Messaging" which allowed you to forward texts to a different number, or send them to you as an email. Of course, they have discontinued it.
iMessage is obviously handy as it sends over an internet connection, but once I pop out my Canadian sim, my phone number will not be registered with iMessage as my new, Italian one will be.
I have an old iPhone 4s that isn't being used, so I am thinking that I might put my Canadian sim in that one, leave it plugged in at home in Canada, enable "text message forwarding" within iOS, and then when I get my Italian sim, I should have both phone numbers registered with iMessage, and SMS messages that go to my Canadian number should get forwarded, via iMessage, to all of my iOS devices, including my Italian sim. Two phones, two numbers, but in two different countries, all attached to one iMessage account.
To answer the obvious:
- Yes, I will be enjoying my holiday and won't be glued to my phone. But I'm a nerd and like to solve problems like this.
- No, I'm not so important that I have that many people contacting me. Again - just thinking of ways to solve this minor problem.
- Yes, a dual-sim Android phone would be the easiest, but I'm invested and Apple has be by the short and curlies at the moment.
So what do you think of my plan to stay connected to my voice and text messages, even after I have yanked out my Canadian sim? Anyone have any experience with this or have any better tips?
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