Dropped mobile "dumbphone" down the toilet

[treez]

Hi,

I have a mobile phone account with EE for my Alcatel 2057D Dumbphone.

It now doesnt work. So i need another  dumb phone. Can i just buy any  cheap dumbphone from Argos and put my SIM in it?

What if the new phone has a micro SIM card placement? ...(my SIM card is a nano SIM)....How do i change my nano SIM to say a micro SIM?....will EE    do it in one of their shops?

When i try and select a new dumb phone...should it be a 2G one or a 4G one?

Most of the cheap £12 dumbphones in Argos  seem to be with vodafone and need you to pay a £10 airtime fee......say i buy one of these ...can i just take thew SIM card out and put my SIM card in there?...or will  that phone  be locked to vodafone?...

I know that if it is locked to vodafone then it will be a waste of time trying to get them to unlock it....since when i changed from o2 to EE, o2 wouldnt unlock my phone and so i had to buy a new phone.......i then just took my old phone and my new phone into an EE shop and they just sorted it all for me.

[treez]

Thanks, so i can buy a SIM from "combi-SIM"  and  then just go into an EE shop and get it "assigned" to my EE account, so that i can use it in any dumbphone that i buy?

..What would be the advantage (if any) of that compared to ordering a new SIM from EE in the post?...or going to an EE shop and buying a SIM and getting them to assign it to my (dumb)phone number on my EE account?

Or have i missed the point?....sorry i confess i am a dumbUser of  a "dumbphone".

[XRaySpeX]

By a Combi-SIM I just mean a SIM that comes in 3 sizes that can be pushed from the containing plastic card.

Your existing no, is already on your a/c. A replacement SIM will come with the same no. so it replaces it on your a/c.

By buying a new SIM from anywhere it will have a different no.