Tuesday Tip: Protect your expensive cellphone

It's important to carry a cellphone on rides with you but do you really want to risk your expensive smartphone to a crash or theft?

I carry a cheap, sub R200 cellphone when I'm riding.

Not too much of a tip here but the real tip is to use a second sim card that's linked to your main contract and number.

Vodacom have a product called dual-sim which allows you to have a second sim card linked to your main number. Whichever phone is switched on will receive calls and any calls made are charged to the main account.

If you make calls from the second phone, the displayed number will be different so I've put that into my wife's phone as "Andrew Cycling"

I'm pretty sure that other networks will have a similar product that you can use to conveniently carry a cheaper phone but still be able to receive and make calls without a second contract or having to swap your sim card between phones.

Photo by: photogestion