It was an iPhone 3GS, old in terms of technology I suppose, and probably not terribly valuable but it was valuable to me. It was paid for and it worked. Find my iPhone didn't find it and the Airvoice Wireless site says I have no active account when I put in my number. So I guess that means they took the sim card out. I guess. I don't understand much of how it all works, honestly.
**edit: I just got the bright idea (duh) to call Airvoice Wireless. My phone was back to active (?) so they are blocking it. And I canceled my auto-renewel. This doesn't change much, but I thought it was interesting that there was no active account last night and now it's back. I have tried calling my number- it went straight to my voicemail outgoing message.
So I guess I'm in the market for a new phone. I would like to stick with a smartphone, but I'm not certain it has to remain Apple. But if I were to switch to non-Apple, do things still work in terms of apps and compatibility? We only have Macs in our home and that's also what I use at work. I don't know what happens when you plug in a non-Apple phone into a Mac because I've never done it. Does iTunes still pop up so you can manage your apps and do backups, etc? Do the apps I've already bought transfer over? All my contacts, stuff like that? Do non-Apple phones communicate with iCloud? Sorry for my dumb questions but I've only ever had the one smartphone, my now long-gone iPhone. Before "Mustachian" was ever a part of my vocabulary, I would have gone to a store where I would purchase a new phone to ask all these questions. But now that I know I don't have to pay a gazillion dollars a month for phone service, I won't be going into an Apple store or an AT&T store and buying a new phone and adding it to my plan. If I decide to stick with iPhone, I'll get a used one and set it up with Airvoice. But I'm curious about those phones offered through Republic Wireless, and I know there are many more options as well. I just don't know how those options fit in with the technology I already have. Thanks for any input.