[blklane]

I've had the idea for a while to allow users to own a dumbphone and smartphone and be able to switch them back and forth easily to receive your main #. Smartphones are so expensive and I don't need the functionality over 50% of the time so it can cut down the risk of breakage by just bringing the flip phone instead.

[0x0]

Some carriers will let you have two active sim cards for one number simultaneously.

[dpeck]

not trying to be a smartass here, but a sim card?

[blklane]

Was unaware that is all thats needed to transfer a number. Thought about porting a number to Twilio, then to have 2 phones which one would have to pay for and just switch the call forwarding.

I'll check out the sim card solution, thanks for the info!

[blklane]

By taking out a sim card you don't remove the risk of physical damage to your phone. By replacing a $10 phone with a $600 phone you can eliminate the risk.

[lbearl]

I think the idea being presented is to physically own both devices, and simply swap the SIM card from device to device as needed.

[gohrt]

SIM cards/trays are not physically accessible and sturdy enough to make that practical as a daily activity.

A "family" plan across both phones is more likely solution.

[zokier]

I'd imagine that swapping (micro)SIM cards gets quite old quite fast. Heck, just rebooting phones all the time would be annoying imho.

[galvan]

Google Voice? Sure it'd require two phone plans, but I guess it's either that or swapping SIM cards around.