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Apple Moves the iPhone Away From Physical SIMs (arstechnica.com)
The new iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max will use eSIM technology to allow users to use two phone lines on a single device. You could have a work or personal number, or an American and Canadian number if you travel across the border frequently. The reprogrammable SIM card is "soldered onto the iPhone's motherboard directly," and measures just 6 millimeters by 5 millimeters," reports Ars Technica, citing GSMArena.com. From the report: These handsets will have a new "dual SIM dual standby" option, one of which will be a nano SIM. In other words, they will have two distinct phone numbers. (Chinese models will have two SIM slots instead of the eSIM option.) Since their debut in 1991, traditional, physical SIM cards have decreased dramatically in size. eSIMs have already been around for nearly a year, since they were introduced into the Apple Watch and Google Pixel 2, among other devices.
Is it serious ? Is it a disposable phone or what ?
How are you going to use SIM card when you travel into a foreign country ?
This is somthing that Apple have been trying to do for a long time : full control of the phone usage.
- No microSD to prevent people from extending their storage. They shall buy a new phone. ( checked)
- No replaceable battery to prevent people to use several ones or replace it when it dies. They shall go to a store and be advised it is better to change phone as well ( checked)
- No headset jack to prevent people from using unothorised headset. They shall buy only headset that are priced as high-end but sound not so. ( checked)
- No sim card to prevent people from changing operator on the go to reduce their cost or enhance third coverage. They will be guided to a better "high end" operator that suits their needs. ( checked)
Great plan, great actions. They must go on as people are sheeps waiting for their master.
Rgs,
TM
No headphone jack, wireless charging/connecting, and eSims means that a portless sealed phone will be possible. Apple will probably have the courage to releae a phone like this, then the others will follow.
You could try to have your main phone number on eSIM so that frees the real SIM slot for your abroad number.
That's not how phone unlocking works at all. You can put any number of SIMs into a phone, as long as they're from the company the phone is locked to. This won't change with ESIMS, the only difference will be instead of a physical card you swap out, you just tell the company the number of the SIM. The hardware of the phone either is or isn't locked regardless of the SIM or ESIM to a certain network, based on your contract.
Nothing has changed at all regarding cell phone unlocking with the swap to ESIMs. Sprint will still continue to be annoying as hell to unlock from, but that's on Sprint, not on Apple.
"Well kids, you tried your best, and you failed. The lesson is, never try." -Homer Simpson
I've had enough of the obvious greed that underlies Apple's removal of the headphone jack, deletion of the MagSafe connector, and other similar
moves.
I used to be an Apple evangelist. Now I despise Apple.
I think smart people are going to move away from Apple. Apple is simply doing too many things that are grossly insulting to intelligent users.
Perhaps Jobs planned it this way. Appointing a person with no design sense as CEO could have been part of his strategy to show the world that Apple could not succeed without him.
Meanwhile other manufacturers solve that problem by providing 2 SIM slots.
Meanwhile other manufacturers solve that problem by providing 2 SIM slots.
I don't care how a solution is implemented, provided it meets my requirements.