Interesting. My T-Mobile Nord 10 phone, at 13 months of age, intermittently stopped seeing the SIM card. We were 2000 miles from home, in Arizona (we live in Kentucky) and they replaced the SIM, which worked for a while, until it didn’t. Long story short, when we got back home I had to go to the T-Mobile store and replace the phone for their current “free” phone, the REVV thingee.
I wonder if mine was an “attempt” to steal my stuff. I doubt it, since the people at neither store were able to get my oneplus phone up and running.
I also had T-Mobile and my phone constantly was saying didn’t recognize SIM, I dumped T-Mobile haven’t had the problem since!!
We have had pretty good luck with the REVVL 5G phones that T-Mobile was giving away last year. It came with twice as much memory and better cameras than the REVVL V+ 5G they have been giving away this year. Mine technically is “defective” the volume on calls is much higher than my wife's phone so that everyone near me can hear both sides of the conversation. It has barely less volume than when using it on speaker phone. It can be turned down, but I am a little hard of hearing and have tinnitus, so it is helpful to me.
Ironically, BECU’s banking app quit working on my old Samsung which served me well for over 7 years. I was told that my phone's operating system was vulnerable to security issues and was no longer supported. I didn't want to upgrade, but the free phone is vastly superior in most ways to the old Samsung.