I picked up a Lumia 920 on Friday but I do not have cell service yet. I am moving from Sprint to Straight Talk and am waiting for the SIM to show up in the mail. I tried to use the phone just with wifi, but it appears that many things can't be done without a cell data connection? I was not able to add a Microsoft account with a SIM, which I did using a co-workers for a few minutes. After I added the account, I was trying to check out the music store but again, it errored with no data connection because I did not have the SIM in there, but I was on wifi.
Is this normal with Windows Phone 8? Is there any way around it? This is a pretty big deal to me as I am not always in the best spots with cellular coverage but have wifi, or when I travel out of the country I won't always have a local SIM such as transferring between airports.
Is this normal with Windows Phone 8? Is there any way around it? This is a pretty big deal to me as I am not always in the best spots with cellular coverage but have wifi, or when I travel out of the country I won't always have a local SIM such as transferring between airports.