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Do all phone deals include a free SIM card?

Your Subscriber Identity Module, otherwise known as your 'SIM', is used to identify you as the carrier of your phone. Everyone have their own SIM card, and this will carry their phone number, data plan, and other details within it. It can be treated as a digital identity card. As such, when you purchase a new package or a new phone, you can continue to use your same SIM card and data plan. 

Neat, functional and fashionable; the BlackBerry Z10 Smartphone

On older phone models, your SIM card carried your contacts and text messages as well. Nowadays, however, modern smartphones will carry these details on the actual device itself. The specific purpose of the SIM, therefore, is purely to link you to your data plan and phone number. When you use your specific SIM in different phones, you will still be able to access your pre-paid plan, or phone contract, without any trouble. 

However, you need to be aware that SIM cards come in different sizes. Different SIMs will fit into different types of phones and card modules. So, for example, if you have a BlackBerry, and you lose it, you will need to get a new SIM card if you start using a different type of phone as a replacement. This SIM will be 'programmed' to still carry your data, but will be specific to the type of phone it is used in.

Mobile phones have become more of a necessity rather than an accessory. Earlier people carried a mobile phone for the express purpose of talking to people- staying in touch while out and around was amazing (yes unthinkable now). They found it a means to communicate with people but now, the demand (or application) of mobile phones has increased to such a high extent that it has emerged as an important necessity for everyone to carry out their day-to-day activities. Here are some of the key things we use our mobile phones for:

Listening to music

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Uses of Mobile Phones

1. Telephone - aka calling!
2. Messaging - aka inboxing
3. Music Player
4. Podcast Player
5. Camera
6. Web browser
7. Applications Operating System (Basically running all kinds of Apps)
8. Creating  (Youtube Shorts Instagram and Tik Tok etc
9. Networking

The marketing angle

As we spend so long on our mobile phones and a lot of that within social media the marketing angle needs a mention. Brands and companies need to get in your face and that means advertising through these 'channels'. Channels are specific places or ways to market. TV is a channel for example in marketing speak.

How long can you last without your phone? Test yourself. 

Many people have left wearing watches, the reason being they have their mobile phones for the time. People use it as a calculator to perform their calculations. People have reminders, organizers, and to do list set in their mobile phones to remind them of important meetings, occasions and events. It performs the function of an alarm and helps in waking them up. SMS has cut down the importance of letters. Now you can say all you need with the help of Short Message Service.