dueling iPhones.

[Spiff]

So I'm in a situation that I thought I'd never be in. I have the potential for having two iPhones.

One is for work. That's where the answering service calls me, professional contacts call me, etc. I'll probably use it for pages as well and get rid of my pager. How cool! I usually leave my work phone a home when I travel (right now it is a flip phone) so I can forget about work for a while and live life. Verizon is the carrier.

The other is an iPhone 3G with AT&T. This is the personal phone where friends and family call. got all my games and contacts there. THinking about upgrading it when the iPhone 22 comes out. =)

The question. Can I have two iPhones, logged in to the same Apple/Mac account, but on different carriers? Searching the internets, I've not found anything relating to this, but I can't see any problems with it.

Thoughts? Comments?

[Trouble]

Do you have a carrier plan with unlimited mobile to mobile minutes? If you do, just have that iPhone forward calls to the other iPhone.

[Spiff]

I was more interested in calender, notes, contacts, emails all being reproduced on both phones. Will a warning sign flash up stating that "this account is already in use" type thing. A friend went from a Blackberry to and iPhone and had that issue. Both were on Verizon.

[space-time]

why not cancel the personal iPhone, save some $$$

[bhaveshp]

Spiff wrote:
The question. Can I have two iPhones, logged in to the same Apple/Mac account, but on different carriers? Searching the internets, I've not found anything relating to this, but I can't see any problems with it.

Sure this can be done - depending on what services you use, there shouldn't be any problems at all.

My wife & I have iphones on different carriers - both are synced to the same Mac login & same iTunes login. iTunes will handle many devices no problem.

As far as mail / calendars / contacts etc, that also should be no issue. For example, I've got my iPhone & iPad both synced to my Yahoo, Gmail, and mac calendars and contacts and email.

Since I'm using IMAP, all syncing is done in the "Cloud", so changes made on one device are automatically seen on the other. An Exchange based email account should be the same, as the data is synced over the air.

If you have to use POP, things may be different. I haven't used POP accounts in a while.

[Spiff]

Thanks bhaveshp! That's what I was looking for.

I don't really want to give up a phone because I love the idea of leaving the work phone at home and forgetting about it. If I take it along on vacation. It can ring or I can page me and I am reminded that I have work to do when I get home, or feel obligated to answer it. It's selfish, I know. But I do want to relax when I'm away.

-Spiff

[Grateful11]

Having 2 cellphones sounds like it could be a pain but it sounds like it can be worked out.