Apple said to be preparing for iPhones without SIM card slot in 2022

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Post by bookofjoe » Mon, Dec 27, 2021, 12:19 PM UTC

Apple said to be preparing for iPhones without SIM card slot in 2022
macrumors.com

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Post by Grakel » Mon, Dec 27, 2021, 4:11 PM UTC

Thank God, the current versions are just so thick, I can barely hold it. I really hope they can remove some more stuff and make it thinner.

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Post by lifty » Tue, Dec 28, 2021, 8:15 AM UTC

Is there a good reason why mobile phones still have SIM cards, besides the historical reasons?

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Post by johnebgd » Tue, Dec 28, 2021, 8:15 AM UTC

Esim is a mature and excellent technology. This is overdue.

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Post by Dylan16807 » Tue, Dec 28, 2021, 8:20 AM UTC

Grakel wrote: post #2

Thank God, the current versions are just so thick, I can barely hold it. I really hope they can remove some more stuff and make it thinner.

Though imagine if they actually replaced it with microsd support.

It would certainly be against the industry as a whole!

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Post by raverbashing » Tue, Dec 28, 2021, 8:23 AM UTC

lifty wrote: post #3

Is there a good reason why mobile phones still have SIM cards, besides the historical reasons?

Yes, so you can switch providers easily

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Post by wereHamster » Tue, Dec 28, 2021, 8:28 AM UTC

raverbashing wrote: post #6

lifty wrote: post #3

Is there a good reason why mobile phones still have SIM cards, besides the historical reasons?

Yes, so you can switch providers easily

FTA:

> iPhone 13 models already support multiple eSIM profiles, allowing users to subscribe to several cellular plans digitally and switch between them, […]

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Post by sz4kerto » Tue, Dec 28, 2021, 8:29 AM UTC

johnebgd wrote: post #4

Esim is a mature and excellent technology. This is overdue.

In my country the third major provider still doesn’t support it, the second (Vodafone) started supporting it in 2021. (EU member state.)

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Post by konart » Tue, Dec 28, 2021, 8:30 AM UTC

lifty wrote: post #3

Is there a good reason why mobile phones still have SIM cards, besides the historical reasons?

In some countries eSIM is basically illegal (for example in Russia up until 2019)

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Post by durnygbur » Tue, Dec 28, 2021, 8:31 AM UTC

Out of half dozen of mobile service providers I have used in 3 different EU countries, ONE provides eSIM.