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I take the point on the security of physical + pin for protection. I guess I'd just love a solution where I could simply switch between accounts without physically swapping something or having a multi-SIM phone.

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But why? Multi-SIM phones are cheap and easy to come by.

Not in the US

Well, of course it's hard to come by a dual-sim iPhone. You need to look for other brands.

Go to Shenzhen. They like to make iPhone clones that are cheaper while having better specs, including multiple SIM card support.

The iPhone-lookalike phones you can buy in China don't run iOS, so I don't consider them 'clones'.

To be fair, "multi-" here typically means "dual-", but even w/o going to Alibaba, they're definitely out there:

  - http://www.androidauthority.com/best-dual-sim-android-phones-529470/

When I had to travel a lot, I had a small booklet of sim-cards that I could pop into my single-SIM phone (this was the 90s), in most regions I visited to get (much) cheaper rates than I was getting for world-wide roaming from AT&T at the time (this was before AT&T was really Southwestern Bell). Except Japan. (Curse you, and your island-nation cell-phone local-only standards, Japan!)

Heh, I'd disagree. I picked up a dual-sim Windows phone, unlocked, for $150 at the Microsoft store.

I've already taken advantage of it being unlocked by switching carriers (saved some bucks) when I saw the prices on one were now better than what I'd been paying.

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