Please stop following in Apple's footsteps
Please stop following in Apple's footsteps
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What happened to daring to be different? What happened to having options? What happened to creativity?
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If I don't have a SIM card slot, how do I plan on using my phone to.... oh I don't know, use a mobile phone network?
And how exactly will I swap between networks at will, by swapping SIMs, if I can't swap SIMs?
Ridiculous.
3 7 ReplyYou can load multiple esims and choose which one you want to use for calls/data/text just like a physical SIM card
7 0 Replyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESIM
Can you explain how to load multiple esims? I thought they were embedded into the device, akin to an IMEI and unchangeable.
1 2 ReplyThe eSIMs in phones are reprogrammable with new "profiles", and Android can store multiple profiles and reprogram the eSIM with whichever one you want to use. Non-programmable eSIMs are only used in embedded devices.
Android 13 also has something called eSIM MEP that allows it to do dual SIM using a single eSIM chip.
Edit: here's Android documentation for developers on eSIM MEP: https://source.android.com/docs/core/connect/esim-mep
5 0 ReplyThank you for sharing your information, I did not know that at all. 👍
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