I am guessing that someone else has tried this. I want to keep my old phone number, but I don’t want to port it to my new murena (Fairphone) phone and service immediately. I want to test the murena services. Can I switch the phone numbers on my account easily after a month?
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There is a big misunderstanding, Murena, or any Operating System, is not linked to a phone number as they are not a service provider / carrier.
The Operating System merely allows the hardware of your phone (antenas) to connect to cell antenas around you in order to link your ID (phone number) to the network of your carrier to which you pay a subscription.
Murena, like google and apple, do not offer phone service-provider / carrier.
You can set up your phone with settings and apps and things and test it … and you can swap the sim any time you like w/o interfering with your system setup (wifi settings, cloud, apps etc.), that applies for physical sim and esim alike.
Some applications depend on the phone number (e.g. Signal) because it is the unique ID. This means that you cannot operate the application with the same ID on two phones. Installing the application on another phone with the same ID disables the use of the app from the first phone.
Depending on the application, switching to another phone can be a headache.
I do not know about other apps that use the phone number as unique ID but for signal specifically, one can use Molly to pair multiple devices to a single signal account (as “linked device”) and fully switch to the new device later, the procedure is not all too complicated and it works well (I can tell from experience).
Actually, murena offers mobile service in the U.S. That’s what I am going to use.
I think that what you are saying is that I can change the phone number at any time, by changing the SIM, and everything else of the phone (apps, settings) will remain the same? That is what I am hoping, to be able to change the phone number easily if I test the phone with a new number, and a few weeks later switch to my old/existing number.
In general that is correct..
There might be few app- exceptions that require individual workarounds.
As pointed out already there’s apps that rely on the phone number as ID (as described for signal messenger, incl. workaround) and there might as well be specific apps (like from your insurance, banking or the like) that can only be active on only one phone at a time (for ID-reasons, I know only of one app from an insurance company, but there might be more and maybe you use one of those few apps or you don’t…)
Apart from that, banking apps can be special.
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