Phone says no sim, but sim card is in

My phone was working last night and then this morning, its no sim on it, i took the sim card out and reinstalled it, turned the phone on and off, but still says no sim.  Any suggestions please?

I talked to an apple tech geek and he thinks there is an issue with the IOS update that thinks a IPhone4 is a IPhone4S. The IPhone4s uses a sim card. I was told I could find an the operating system online and instead of using Apple update use the new file and it should work fine.  Or just go to an Apple store and see if they can do it for me at a price.

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