Gnex to Nexus 5

[RustyNayl]

Hi guys,

Currently using a Galaxy Nexus and plan to upgrade when the Nexus 5 is released. My current phone has a regular sized simcard, while according to the leaked manual, the Nexus 5 will use a micro sim. I apologize in advance if this is a stupid question, but if we ordered the Nexus 5 off the play store, would it likely come with a simcard we can activate? Or is it up to us to get a new one from our service provider?

Is anyone else in the same boat as me? I can order a simcard off of Roger's website for $10, but I don't want to buy it if it's not neccessary, but at the same time I don't want my new phone to arrive and not have a simcard.

Thanks in advance!

 

[DigitalReality]

Hi guys,

Currently using a Galaxy Nexus and plan to upgrade when the Nexus 5 is released. My current phone has a regular sized simcard, while according to the leaked manual, the Nexus 5 will use a micro sim. I apologize in advance if this is a stupid question, but if we ordered the Nexus 5 off the play store, would it likely come with a simcard we can activate? Or is it up to us to get a new one from our service provider?

Is anyone else in the same boat as me? I can order a simcard off of Roger's website for $10, but I don't want to buy it if it's not neccessary, but at the same time I don't want my new phone to arrive and not have a simcard.

Thanks in advance!

It won't come with any simcard. Your service provider will give you one.

But I was wondering if any phone (manufacturer) would give you card!?

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[jairusz]

If you want to keep your original sim card you can DIY yourself and cut it to the micro sim size.

 

[RustyNayl]

I see. I guess though if I buy the phone off google play, my service provider won't even know I got a new phone so it would be up to me to get a new simcard before the phone arrives.

On the rogers website, I have the ability to order a new simcard.

 

[junglejunkie]

I bought a sim cutter from Amazon for my wife who went from a GNex to a Nexus 4, worked no problem. Pretty sure it cost around $5, half the price of buying a sim from the carrier.

 

[jerrod6]

I have the GN on Verizon and I am upgrading to the Nexus 5. I am moving to another service provider and my plan is to get a sim card and new phone number from them.

 

[RustyNayl]

Thanks for the advice people. I ended up ordering one from Roger's website for $10. I figured I probably needed a new one, i'm assuming my current one isn't LTE compatible.. but who knows.

 

[Fairclough]

You have a few choices;
- To order a replacement
- Go in store and get it cut (if they put it in they take liability for any damage - my phone provider told me this as they suspected one of their stores F-ed my nexus 4, turned out they managed to unjam the sim tray and kept my old sim just to show the other store how bad at cutting they are)
- Ask the staff nicely for a free replacement sim (where i am there are about $2, but most the time the staff will waive the fee - least every guy i have had, as they were stoked to see 2 nexus 4's in their store, the female staff went to charge but forgot about it on another occasion - maybe i am lucky, girlfriend got hers waived later on to as she said her phone got stolen -> they asked a few questions thinking she was lying - thankfully she refound the mobile.)
- Cut it yourself.

 

[obi5683]

The GNex does not use a regular sized (mini) SIM. It uses a micro SIM. You should not have to do anything unless your SIM is not LTE compatible. The smallest size is the nano SIM.

 

[ballengerb]

Nexus 5 is supposedly going to have a nano sim slot

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[cgardnervt]

If your on att your SIM card swap is free! Just get a tray if you need a micro SIM for your second device like me! (HTC One & N5)