absent SIM card?

[forizzle111]

i just bought a used phone from Ebay(motorola C331) and it does not use a SIM card? it does not have a place to put a SIM card? idk what to do in order to get my service plan transferred to it. any help wud be appreciated. thanx

[Freakitchen]

I'm pretty sure all mobile phones use SIM cards! are you sure the slot is not hidden?

Maybe try downloading the phone's manual and find the sim-insertion instructions.

Freakitchen

[Byte 2.0]

sometimes, it is hidden behind the battery, but I am no expert.

[rspassey]

Its actually covered withing the 'tape like thing' around my battery.. so you cant access it; might be like that on yours.

[SonicVanguard]

I'm pretty sure all mobile phones use SIM cards!
Thats not correct. I'm a long time Sprint customer and they've never used SIM cards.

[mbossman2]

I don't believe this phone has a sim slot...

[Freakitchen]

You're probably right here - I was going by the fact that I've never seen a phone in the UK that doesn't use a SIM card. All UK networks use them, and wasn't aware that there was an alternative.

Freakitchen

[colecifer]

Sim cards are fairly new in America, i think only Cingular and T-mobile use them but i'm not sure. What kind of phone did you buy? Older phones wouldn't have a slot but most newer ones should.

[kevinf]

what is the model of the phone and is it gsm

[Statica]

Actually I'm getting conflicting info about the fone. The same model sold in the US is a GSM fone, which means that it has a SIM slot; but there seems to be a similar fone in S.America that is a CDMA which means that it is not GSM network compatible hence no SIM slot.
Actually I cannot verify the GSM version of the fone from the motorola website, I can only get the CDMA/AMPS version from here: http://www.motorola.com/ve/pcs/productos/c331car.html

Addendum:
This is one that I found listing the C331 as GSM: http://mobile.softpedia.com/phones/Motorola/Motorola-C331.shtml ; of course this could just be a typo

[Statica]

Sim cards are fairly new in America, i think only Cingular and T-mobile use them but i'm not sure. What kind of phone did you buy? Older phones wouldn't have a slot but most newer ones should.

Again, it's not necessary .. newer fones that are not meant to be on a GSM network do not have SIM cards. There are a few providers in N.America that have GSM networks. Cingular & TMobile are two of them.

Addendum:
There apparently was a C331 sold by Cingular on a GSM 850/1900 dualband as well as a TDMA 800/1900+AMPS version sold by them as well, which is weird! Anyways it looks like you're sitting with the TDMA version of it. source: http://www.howardchui.com/modules.php?name=Sections&op=viewarticle&artid=103

[forizzle111]

i am going to call cingular and see if they can switch it over. but if it is TDMA i may notbe able to use it since im using a GSM network. so hopefully it is a GSM. thanx