Welcome To My World (of Ios)

I have ordered an iPhone Air. I have not bothered with any eSIM shit yet. I am going to Spain in a few weeks and I want to keep with what I know abroad.

I want (and only want) an eSim that keeps my number. Simple enough you would think? NO!!!! This is the most complicated thing known to mankind! Much more complicated than the design of the phone! That is because the children are in charge of eSIMs! And it could just be that O2 are only interested in helping you if they get to sell you the phone and sign you up for two years.

I'll get the phone and have plenty of time to play about with it on WiFi. When I get back from Spain, but have the phone in my hand, I will try again with O2 and an eSIM that retains my phone number. Perhaps my patience will have improved by then!

I know nothing of Apple, so it will be good to learn something new.

 

The iPhone Air does not take a physical SIM. You have to use an eSIM, so I cannot just take the SIM from my Android Samsung and put it in the iPhone.

I do have an iPad, but have never bothered use it. I am just too lazy. I bought it for reading books and I already have a small eReading device and also my bigger Android tablet for reading. With the iPhone, I will want to get with it, to eventually use it as a phone. I am interested to see how good or bad it is. My current phone is shit. It works with WiFi at home and where I have just been for lunch at Ley Bistro, Out and about, when I was in Plymouth, it was junk. The O2 signal is useless there and in the shopping centre, it tried to tag on to any WiFi in sight, but the WiFi was for staff and required one to sign in. That meant no signal and no WiFi. Plymouth is shit for O2.

 

We shall see . . . . . .

 

I am wary of self-appointed YouTube eggspurts. In the past, I have seen "fix my motorcycle" stuff when the tool of choice is a large club-hammer.

I am wary of much that I see, where the conclusion is: if whacking it with a hammer doesn't do the trick, then sell to somebody more stupid than you. A very small market to restrict yourself to when you don't have to.

 

I realise that this will stop the physical SIM in my Android phone from working - or maybe not, but it will possibly work, but just with a different number. I just don`t know. That's why I want to keep with the Android phone on my number until at least after Spain 1. All my shit is on Google Drive on my phone, like tickets. As Google control Android effectively, I want to stay with my Samsung Android phone whilst I travel. When I physically have both phones in my hand, I will look into transferring the number from physical SIM to an eSIM. I just want to do it in the UK without pressure. And I can always visit an Apple or O2 shop in Bath, or Cribbs Causeway. Possible in Spain but my Spanish isn't quite up to explaining what I am trying to do!

I may get this done between Spain 1 and Spain 2, but I will see.

Next year, I will use Portsmouth rather than Plymouth. I am thinking of doing it still with Brittany Ferries, but one Spain and one France. Later in the year, I might try the train route from Bristol Temple Meads just to try the route down to Portsmouth. The train stops in Southampton first and the hotels look better in Southampton than Portsmouth. Must be forty years since I have been to Southampton.