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If this is the trend, then those quad-sim crappy phones I got from China will finally be useful! One for WhatsApp, one for netflix, one for phone, one for internet.
Honestly I don't know who will ever use this..
Also, when I first read the title, I thought: cool, they implemented the WhatsApp protocol on a sim card, so feature phones can chat on WhatsApp! How disappointed I am.
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Yup way too many mentions of "free, without limits", considering: €10 per year but they say "no expiry". €.25 per photo (sent or received, I think) €.50 per video That's just for Zone 1. More than triple those prices if you're in Australia or any Zone 2 country.. and more than 6 times those prices if you're in Canada or any Zone 3 country.
I've dealt with a small amount of MVNO negotiations and this company has put many red flags up in my mind. It may be obvious to someone else, but I'd like to know how they detect a photo or video being sent, rather than text? WhatsApp is end-to-end encrypted, so they can't be proxying the data to the servers. Are they just guessing from the total data transfer seen from the subscriber? There's a lot of unanswered que…
A friend of mine is getting one, as she doesn't want to get roaming charges during her vacation, but still wants to talk to people on WhatsApp. Seems to solve this problem quite well. :)
To be able to send photos, videos, and voice messages and to share your location and contacts, all you need to do is buy a recharge. With a €5 recharge you receive 1,000 credits that allow you to exchange 50 photos, 10 videos or 200 voice messages in most countries. Plus sharing your position and contacts is unlimited.
Wow, so many contradictions!
There are no monthly payments, but it's €10/year.
It never expires, but you have to renew it every year.
You can chat for free and without limits, but multimedia messages cost extra.
To share our contacts and location you must buy a "recharge", but sharing your position and contacts is unlimited.
I don't trust this service one bit, I suspect it will be full of sneaky charges and misleading smallprint.
I absolutely despise the weasel words that this site uses. It is full of outright lies and contradictions. Most misleadingly: All Sims make you chat. But this one for free and without limits. It's not free, it costs €10 for a year. Why then do they also claim 'it never expires' ? Why do they say that it has no limits, when the Rates page is full of limits? I despise such deliberately misleading text. These people are…
Realistically, this is just par for the Telecom Space. I've put together a nice collage that is ready to print to brochure. It could easily be an AT&T/Verizon/Comcast/Dish/DirectTV/TimeWarner newspaper insert.
Wow, what a terribly misleading written FAQ: Does WhatSim work on all phones? Yes, it works on all unlocked phones. That question should be answered with a NO then. It doesn't work on all phones.
WhatSim is the stroke of genius of Manuel Zanella, founder and CEO of Zeromobile. In 2003, after his honeymoon in Kenya where he spent a fortune in phone calls, Manuel Zanella had the idea of creating a SIM card to reduce the cost of international roaming. In 2007 he created Zeromobile, the mobile company for low cost roaming that allows you to save up to 85% on the cost of incoming and outgoing calls, text messages and mobile Internet. And you can receive free in over 140 countries. Now with this new idea, WhatSim, he has created a revolutionary SIM card to chat for free with WhatsApp, the world's most popular messaging system.
Wow, what a terribly misleading written FAQ: Does WhatSim work on all phones? Yes, it works on all unlocked phones. That question should be answered with a NO then. It doesn't work on all phones.
For most countries where SIMs are commonly in use (i.e. not the US where CDMA is still a thing and not all consumers are comfortable with GSM), people generally understand that to change SIM you need an unlocked phone. I think the question is intended to answer whether you need a phone on a specific GSM or UMTS band, which you don't.
I understand that it is a sim that permits data-only connectivity for a large number of networks around the world. What I'm having difficulty with is understanding how the sim limits the user to using only whatsapp. Does the sim analyse network traffic content or endpoint to block non-whatsapp data? Is the whatsapp software supplied on the sim as an STK application that has sole access to the data channel? Something else?
What am I missing?
A friend of mine is getting one, as she doesn't want to get roaming charges during her vacation, but still wants to talk to people on WhatsApp. Seems to solve this problem quite well. :)
She could get a 3 SIM if she's from the UK? "Feel at home" countries have the same freedom as being in the UK, so the £15 PAYG SIM (which you can stop using after a month) gives you 25GB data, unlimited texts and a large number of calls, even if you're in various countries in Europe, and even better, America. I will be looking to use one when I visit America later in the year.
