Some follow up re: getting locked out of my own social media accounts while traveling (couldn’t prove “I am me”, so was locked out…). Sorry for my delay getting back to this topic. I was busy creating websites & traveling (e.g. to Iceland). I plan to post soon re: “what I have been up to”.
& I might have found success regarding a new travel phone for me. Contrary to my resistance, I might purchase one or more SIM cards. Tho I might need only just one relatively recent unlocked smartphone, to use virtually everywhere. Things looking up/progress? Seems likely.
Am reaching the conclusion that a good idea when picking one phone for all areas is: ask whether it functions with 3G, 4G, 5G & 6G services. Quite a few newer unlocked phones might do this. Ask. Last year I bought an unlocked smartphone with 2 SIM card slots. I now seem to be told that with the correct SIM card(s) inserted, might be able to use it almost “anywhere”.
First step: to see if the SIM card in my older smartphone can fit & operate in my newer unlocked phone, to (in effect) transport my current home phone plan into my newer phone.
Other steps (in due course, when I go traveling again): try an eSIM account with new phone. And/or look to purchase a European pay-as-you-go SIM card & a U.S.A. pay-as-you-go SIM card, to see if can make the new phone operational when traveling in European countries and/or in the U.S.A.
For context, am a traveler: this year I already traveled: along the West Coast of North America, to some continental Europe countries, to Iceland, & through Boston in the U.S.A.