Tmo sim card

[danielcj]

I have a friend who just got a blackberry flip as a present. At the time when his wife bought him the phone, the tmo rep gave her a new sim card for the phone and told her that her husband should come back to the store and they will transfer his address book for him. He currently has a regular motorola flip phone.
Now I was thinking that he can just take his current sim card and transfer his address book by just inserting it into the blackberry. That's what I did when I got my first bb.
Is there a difference in sim cards from 2003 compared to ones available today? I was just thinking of saving my friend the hassle of going to a tmo store.

Thanks for any input.

[JJfromthe813]

Honestly not enough of a differance to really matter. even if he uses the new sim card he can still put the new sim in the old razor and copy the contacts ot put the old sim in the new BB and copy the contacts(even if the old sim is inactive)

But I would have him hold onto the sim incase he needs a new one down the road because thet usually go for $20 at the Tmoble store

[danielcj]

That's a good point. I only noticed a pain in going through my contacts after a transfer and figuring out which number is mobile and which is home. Anyway around this when copying contacts from a sim? Or do the newer sims able to differentiate?

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[JJfromthe813]

Unfortunatly there is no way around it. A SIM card can only hold one number per contact. What I did the first time I got my BB was marked which number was mobile and which was not when I saved them to the SIM simply by adding an M to each mobile number for the contacts with more than 1 number. The downside to that was I had to save those contacts 1 at a time as opposed to a mass copy