I had my S9+ mainboard replaced under warranty back in 2019. Sameday repair, dropped it off when they opened and picked it up on my lunch break (oh, the before times!). I didn’t pay so I can’t comment on how much.
Samsung also offered to replace my out of warranty Fold3 inner screen protector free-of-charge at the same store this month, but I got lazy and just ordered a kit and did it myself in the end.
I just saw an honest esim advert and it said about using 3 of the UK networks, was it originally 4?
Think they’ve hit some sort of roadblock with Vodafone. It’s in the list, but always ‘unavailable’
Yeah, they wrote in an email:
EE, O2 and Three going strong – Vodafone didn’t work as hoped, so it’s on hold until it’s working as it should. The rest of the UK’s biggest networks remain at your fingertips.
In other news they also added some more apps to their list yesterday: Addison Lee, Carousel Buses - Buckinghamshire, Go Cornwall, H&C Buses - Headingham & Chambers Essex and Suffolk Buses, More Bus - Bournemouth and surrounding areas, New York - MTA Train Times, Metrobus - Surrey, Sussex and Kent buses, Oxford Bus, Plymouth Bus, Southern Vectis Bus - Isle of Wight, Swindon Bus, Merseyrail, NS International (Netherlands Train travel).
They also seem to have fixed the issue where Google Maps only worked when logged out/incognito.
My honest sim was meant to cancel yesterday, but hasn’t according to the app anyway (I don’t have the eSIM on my new phone)
I’m a bit late to honest game. I’m maybe assuming wrongly that you’re actually purchasing a foreign network sim and roaming in the UK? Do you have a non UK IMSI?
It’s a none UK number, it’s an American number
Weirdly they say I’ll loose the number, even though it’s a data only sim
For me it shows up in iOS as “TIM” or Telenyx (a US-based company I think?). Putting the ICCID into an online lookup tool shows KPN/Telfort (Netherlands). iOS shows the sim has a US number, looking that number up says it’s a Telenyx VoIP number; I tried calling the number and some random person who isn’t me answered. 
So yes, it’s international roaming shenanigans.
I tried calling the number I got given and it went straight to what I assume was a voicemail saying “This person is unavailable”
A bit more on the Honest Smart esim: I previously wrote I was sceptical of it.
I ended up biting and signing up to try it anyway out of curiosity.
It is still “beta” so acknowledging it’s likely to improve, it still has quite a few rough edges. Here’s a few:
On the positive, they do seem to be actively adding more applications. And iOS push notifications work for everything. But I also don’t think they’ll ever cover everything you might want/need. It doesn’t cover all the messaging apps I use. They’d solve a lot of problems if you could access non-listed services even at a very limited speed.
True to my prediction, I’ve used tens of megabytes trialling it for small periods at a time. The biggest consumer is weirdly Honest’s own app, followed by maps (which have offline capabilities anyway).
So is there a conclusion? Not yet. I’m not going to recommend it to anyone at the moment, but I think I’ll keep it around a little while longer to see how it develops and also test it on some international travel.
I’ve also tried Roamless since I last mentioned them. They roam on Three/O2/Vodafone in the UK and everything seems to just work. I’ve paid them £15 (20USD top-up, they added a bonus 5USD) which can get me 10.5GB in the UK. As a backup data sim they’re quite possibly my favourite option now. Only gotcha I’ve noticed is their rates vary between country from reasonable ($2.45/gb) to “oh no” ($89.50/gb in Algeria anyone?).
Might not allow iMessage photos as they are less compressed so use more data?
Hopefully they’ll add. First bus app, may recommend it
I wish they’d just deliver on the original promise of the idea about 4 or 5 attempts ago. Even if it means a data cap. This anti net neutrality approach is broken beyond belief and just ain’t it.
This iteration is just a worse take on emergency SOS (which is only going to improve in time and work with more applications and scenarios). Smart sim will still have dead zones.
Another Honest Smart SIM update
Honest have recently changed how their app account logins work, and it is a perfect demonstration of the problem with the current Smart SIM model. They’ve changed it from username/password to using an email with a magic link (like Monzo). So although the Honest app is an “essential” app, if you need to login whilst using Smart SIM (which I did because it randomly booted me out to the login screen), you won’t be able to because you can’t access the email with the magic link. That said it fails to even request the magic link so I guess maybe they forgot to allow-list that part? 
Travel: I’ve now tried using the smart sim in Hong Kong and it works as well as it does in the UK – so ok for the allowed apps, but just the allowed apps was too limiting for it to be very useful and I ended up using another sim almost all the time outside of purposely testing the smart esim. At that point the smart sim became more of a distraction and faff than actually useful.
Forever singing O2 praises but today is absolutely diabolical in Wrexham centre 
zero throughput.
No Service for calls at the football today, lost my friend at the stadium
There was a Wrexham match on so probs why.
Or were you in Wrexham?
Or your friend was, having read it again. They won 4 - 1 against Northampton.
Been in and around Alton today i could get signal on EE and others couldn’t on o2 and Vodafone.
Folks with employee / friends and family discount at EE – does it apply to accessories and other products too?
