I am midway through a 24 month contract and wish to buy a sim-free iphone. Thing is the iphone uses a micro-sim. Can I just waltz into an Orange shop and ask for a new micro-sim?

‘s exactly what we did with O2. Didn’t charge us for it either.

Finally got through to Orange CS on the phone, they want an extra £10 out of me per month just because it’s going in an iPhone! Think I may just trim my existing card to fit!

I trimmed down a GiffGaff one and it works perfectly in my iPhone 4. Google for some examples. They really should start printing a cutting guide on the SIM.

Cool, I have heard some people saying you get reduced battery life with the chopped cards – something to do with voltage…

Everything ok with you, spindl, with your GiffGaff card?

I cut up a Vodafone Greece sim to go in a iPhone 4 and it works fine. Word of caution, we did buy a sim cutter, but for some reason the sim card had an off centre chip and had we punched it then it would have knackered the sim.

Probably just a Greek thing tho.

Another thing, make sure you have unlimited data so you don’t get spanked on data charges.

Everything ok with you, spindl, with your GiffGaff card?

Everything working perfectly. Not noticed any drop in battery life.