BlackBerry Smartphones Pro benefits and disadvantages to have contacts on SIM

Hi all

I always assumed that my contacts are all on my SM card and all I have to do is pop the output card and put it in another phone if something happened to mine. I discovered that is not the case, none of my contacts are on my SIM card.

Now I would like to know the pro and con to have your contacts on the SIM card.

Thank you

The main advantage of having contacts on SIM card is portability, you talked.

The downside is that you have several duplicates of contacts by name if yu have more than 1 number of phone attached to their name. In addition, other details like address, email and IM links cannot be saved on the SIM simcard.so only save basic details, name and contact number 1 for each contact record.

just my 2 cents,

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