Most burner phones also use microSIMs rather than nanoSIMs, so you’ll either need to get a new SIM from your phone network or a converter: a little piece of plastic into which your normal SIM slots.

Assuming you're not a drug dealer or having an affair, why would you want the best burner phone? Well, for one, they're cheap: so cheap you can afford to lose or break them. Second, they're a great ...

Although somewhat extreme, a few tech-savvy people use a burner phone to access apps that they need but fear might be stealing private information. In this case, the burner phone is a smartphone ...

If you’ve watched a fair bit of TV and films, you must have heard the term “burner phone” being thrown around. A character needs a quick getaway, so they pick up a burner phone on the way ...

A phone that is not connected to your identity, is only used for a small set of calls or activities, and can be discarded if and when it is suspected of being tracked or compromised. Burner phones are ...

Many people had no idea what a burner phone was until crime drama The Wire popularised the term in the early 2000s. Now they're the talk of Washington - here's why. It all started with White House ...

Inspired by Kenneth Lipp on Twitter. Specifically, this passage was interesting to me: Let's say a narcotics task force is trying to maintain a wiretap on a drug dealer, but the drug dealer uses ...