I'm still mad about phone manufacturers taking out the headphone jack, why yes, it's a great move to switch to Bluetooth, they are still so many reasons not to mention a lot of the times it's a hassle to connect to Bluetooth. And how much space did it really save? I wouldn't mind my phone being slightly bigger just so that way I can have a headphone jack.
yes... and so many still offer headphone jacks and are pretty sleek (currently waiting for next gen sony xperia for that) currently using old oneplus 3 and can use all headphones including high impedance ones. meanwhile I connect to a soundlink mini 2 via bluetooth and want to switch to a car bluetooth or back it tries to find the other device for a little while before it lets me connect to the new device its so annoying. Its actually quicker to "forget device" and "add new bluetooth device" in my case... why is bluetooth so broken? I just dont get it! (I heard it has to have something to do with the >20 protocols bluetooth has or whatever they were called but still... pls at least fix that before forcing consumers to buy wireless headphones)
And don't forget the microSD card reader that is disappearing from phones. "Just use Cloud storage" is not a solution since I don't trust them with my data.
But you already have a USB-C port, it's not like Bluetooth is the only option. The port just changed, like every single connection has done over and over. Just this time they changed it to a good one and it's looking like it will stay for a while.
First headphone jack, then micro sd expansion, then SIM cards. Next step: eCameras, the cameras are inside the phone so the phone is sleeker with no disruption of the back side design.
@@Der-Kleine Now this is the AI future I was promised! Google/Apple uses your location to automatically generate photos around you so you don't even need to think about taking pictures.
Why do carriers have to support iSIM differently than eSIM? Is it not just an abstracted hardware interface at this point? Why would the provisioning process need to be any different for the carrier?
@@billyhatcher643ya and so cana thief after stealing your device and then through OTPs getting access to all your online data including your Bank account.
I mean, it’s no different to your phone being carrier locked now. Once the phones (e)SIM is no longer carrier locked, you can change networks easily, at least if you’re using a major carrier.
At some point companies went from “How can we make the product better and/or more affordable?” To “How can we get them to pay more for a *less practical* product?” Planned obsolescence and subscription models are the favorite tools of the oppressive tech companies.
LOL thats really not what happened. Waterproof phones and demand for pocket-ability did. You can have a headphone jack & removable battery or you can have effective waterproofing.
I heard Apple are doing a new phone that is not only carrier locked to AT&T, but also requires a daily offering of affection and cash to both companies. It's based on iSimp technology.
And Google will continue to collude with handset vendors to keep people on the upgrade train. Google will continually refuse to make Android in such a way it can be installed and updated as effortlessly as Windows or Linux. Meanwhile... over at Microsoft...🪟
That does raise a good point, handsets are nowhere near as durable as they used to be. I for one refuse to go with anything other than the most durable handset, features be damned. * Posted from my Nokia 3310.
Freaky timing, I just switched to my first esim yesterday. Was actually quite simple; just scanned a QR code, it programed the sim, one reboot, and was done.
Also removing the sim tray also removes the ability to expand storage using a microSD card. So the easy transfer of user info between phones is not the only thing they took out by shedding the physical SIM altogether.
Having experienced what can go wrong with devices that do not have MicroSD I wouldn't knowingly pick one that doesn't have today. But that was true before eSIM.
you didn't talk about dual sim. Very popular in asia, and with people who frequently travel between countries that have different providers (e.g. US and Canada). physical sims used to make that super easy ofc, but only models made for asia would have the 2nd tray, US/EU models often using that same space for SDcards. With esim, lesser known advantage is that at least currently most esim phones **also** have a physical sim tray - making it a dual sim phone by default. This is the first time you could get totl dual sim phones in america. I fear the move completely away from physical sim will get us back to the days of dual sim being rare in the americas and europe - you'd need 2 esim chips which ppl aren't likely to put in there i assume.
Here in South Africa, it is almost impossible to get a phone that is not dual sim that has not been released in the past few years. It is almost a standard this side.
Ok, but what are the phones that actually have this function? With a quick search on GSM Arena i could only find 17 models (discounting the lots of S20 series variables) that have both a SD slot and an eSIM. Unfortunately the market is moving to not having SD card, with newer phones rarely having it available.
One of the advantages of GSM over CDMA was the Sim card how easy it made taking your phone abroad, selling it after you got a new phone, or having two different carriers on the same phone, but eSims sound really inconvenient (by design).
How is this monopolistic? If you buy a phone from a carrier for a subsidized price, it's going to be locked to that carrier until you pay it off. Where does the monopoly come in?
@@DavidKen878 I don't think they were necessarily talking about phone locking, that already exists and would better be described as anti-competitive.
Ahh, I remember back when the information on a SIM card was a part of the phone instead. Caused quite the headache when Sprint first started supporting LTE (and the associated, necessary SIM card) but some of their call center workers didn't get the memo. Now we've come full circle.
Even though I still use physical sims (dual physical sims specifically) on my S23, eSIM on my iPhone didn't give me any issues at all. It just needs to be widely adopted by Telcos.
Does eSIM require mobile data or to be connected to a wifi? What if you do not have data nor can you take a wifi at places, can you still have the signal hitting the eSIM and making phone calls???
@@spencer6288 Even if you don’t have mobile data or WiFi, as long as you downloaded your eSIM, your eSIM will still function well. Just like a normal SIM card. You can still make/receive calls and send/receive SMS.
I switched to Esim and an online phone over a year ago and never looked back. Dent Esim works in 70 countries and automatically switches between countries and data load does not expire for 365 days. My online Canadian number is Free and I have a phone number anytime I have data, Esim or WiFi. When I go to a country for a longer time to film some vlogs for my RUclips channel, I buy a local sim card.
i am neither american nor do i use tmobile or mint but the fact that it was all business and he sold out like that pissed me off. haven't watched his another video after that
@@jody024 still not as same as literally getting bought out by tmobile. i have no hate toward tmobile or love for mint. it's the brutalistic business move that to be perfectly honest gave me a reality check that Ryan Reynolds with his infinite charisma is still a businessman doing what businessman do; make profits.
I've had physical Sim cards die. They do contain NAND flash after all, and after about 5 years they're usually dead. My new phone was acting strange, thought I'd have to request warranty service or get a replacement. Turns out it was my old Sim card I had carried over many phones for many years. New Sim fixed it completely. Hopefully eSIM don't have this issue? Because of they do.. That's not great.
@@BichaelStevensame here, my mom's previous SIM lasted 11 years, and she could've gotten more out of it if she didn't go into the carrier's shop for some tech support. The guy there opened up her phone and was shocked to see what was previously a bright red SIM card become a white, scratched piece of plastic that somehow still worked. She now has an even brighter red SIM card.
Indeed plug-in SIMs do expire. Typically a consumer SIM is rated for two years and 500k erase/write cycles. Industrial SIMs usually rated for ten years. Heat, cold, humidity, vibration, constantly swapping, writing lots of things to SIM memory... all contribute to shorter lifecycle. I've seen a customer accidentally make writes to SIM memory many times a minute, causing their SIMs to self-destruct within a few weeks! Whether a particular embedded SIM (... supporting eSIM profiles) is of the consumer or industrial variety is down to the manufacturer and carrier contracting with them.
@@BichaelStevens my previous SIM lasted 6ish years, as soon as I got a new one I suddenly had signal in locations I never had signal, I had HD calling which for some reason never worked with the previous SIM. It may “work” but it may not be optimal for a newer phone. , ,
Most carriers around the world, most notably around Latin America and the majority of Asia will not sell you eSIMs without a plan and even if you get an eSIM, they completely block transferring it between devices or even sometimes trasnfering the phone line/number itself, so each time you upgrade your phone, better cough up another eSIM plan purchase, removing the sim card is such an.... petty thing like, seriously, why even bother lmao, also when travelling, some countries require ID or registration when buying SIM cards (even without a plan) and eSIMs are not sold to foreigners in some countries, so if you have your brand new iPhone without an sim tray, too bad.
People that can afford an iPhone 14 and who are constantly travelling overseas that they need a foreign SIM card can afford a spare phone for their overseas use.
Isim definitely sounds like the way to go but we need proper consumer protection laws so you can use whatever Sims you like by whatever provider you want.
When we upgraded my dad's iPhone X...we had to go with a 13 Pro because of the eSim in the 14 Pro because our carrier, Ting, didn't support eSims when we were upgrading.
I did a complete signup on a European carrier before visiting. Went to the website, paid with a CC, they emailed a QR code with the SIM information. Scanned it. Boom, network.
@@nijamkaj true, I learned it the hard way when I was trying to buy a phone holder for my motorcylcle. Every single one supports only super slim phones. My phone is 20mm thick, 99% of those holders support 12mm or less.
The one time I tried using eSIM it just simply didn't work. PROBABLY because the phone didn't have any physical sim in the slot so I couldn't see the + to add the eSIM. The + is now there after inserting a physical SIM. ANYWAY, that's good to know about those providers that apply abroad apps... I might check pricing. But I think I'll just mooch off a pocket WiFi from the person I'm visiting lol
I wish more phones had ESIMs. Only the most expensive phones do. If I were able to have more than one cell service on a phone, I'd travel more. I don't want to switch tiny sim card during vacation!
I don't have too much issue with eSIMs. I mean, it made setting up the device and swapping devices pretty easy. The bigger issue will always be carrier compatibility. But I have Google Fi, and as long as I'm on wifi, I don't have to worry about trying to switch to a local carrier or something. Even in a country that Fi doesn't support.
@@kazzxtrismus That's an unfair comparison lol, with physical sim you still have to go to the store in person or wait for it to ship... If you're comparing the case where you already have access to the sim, esim is still way easier, you don't even need a sim tool to swap it out, you just do it in the settings app. The inconveniences of esim are just because carriers making it hard
@@Summer-xu8qu everyone drives past a cell providers store or 20 every day....where i am getting esim working takes a 2 hr phone call cuz they suck....once loaded/setup the change is very seamless i agree...but im also not dumb enough to give my fingerprint or use face ID instead of a code or pattern to get in my phone....im not so in love with tech as to sell out society as a whole for a 1/10th second improvement in speed
One misconception regarding SIMs: it’s not only data, it’s a computer in itself! A SIM contains a CPU, crypto modules, I/O interfaces toward RF and the host system, (ie the Phone) and at last GSM-provider registration data. All on such a tiny thing as SIM-card !
PLEASE guys make a Techquickie about how to TRANSFER a phone number from one eSIM phone to another eSIM phone while NOT changing carriers. Sometimes I need to transfer my phone number from my large, breakable, expensive phone to a smaller, cheap phone. I don't want to have to involve the carrier. With a physical SIM I simply move the SIM from one phone to the other. It might be fiddley but it takes less than a minute. I asked the question to someone who was an "expert" and all I got was silence.
Sounds like you want a SIP client rather than a SIM. What you describe is abstracting the number away from the carrier, which means using a carrier (+SIM) to give you a data session for IP traffic and then obtain your number from a SIP provider. There are telcos that do this, though it is very niche.
@@DorkaliciousAF Thanks for the quick response. But it's not that complex. I guess I didn't make it clear. I can move a SIM from one phone to another phone. Same phone number, same carrier. 📱📲 I want to accomplish the same thing with two phones that have eSIM's. 📱📲
@@DavidKen878 What app is that? If you're switching your phone number between eSIM phones I'd love to know how you do it! I'm currently using Mint Mobile and with two Google Pixel phones that have both SIM and eSIM. I'm asking about this procedure now because in the near future new cellphones will not have SIM cards and I want to be able to do it without having to contact the carrier.
Some Phone Companies offers Dual Sim Slot plus eSIM support, and should have a contract between phone manufacturer and service provider in that region.
With the extremely small size and integrated nature of iSIM, it would be good to see manufacturers implement multiple chips, eg. 3... so you can have a personal number, work number and a free slot for international traveling.
That used to be a reliable approach in 2G/3G, but in some territories the LEAs lobbied to require telcos to require the use of a SIM to make an emergency call. In 4G networks and later voice calls are carried across a data session, which telcos won't permit without a SIM anyway.
Bring back? Lol we still have one. We have 2 actually, one in our kitchen on the wall its a mint green at&t phone from the 80's probably, we also have a train phone that looks like a old steam engine and makes a train noise when someone calls. We also have answering machine.
So if my phone dies and I want to switch to a new phone, now I will need to call my carrier so they can send me a QR code? I can't just switch the physical card that I own into another phone that I own without involving the subscription service provider? That's horrible, please don't ever buy a phone without a physical SIM card.
That's always been the case for me tho. I had 2 phones, both from boost mobile. I shattered the newer one and when i tried to swap the sim card to use it on the older one, they blocked the card entirely.
I remember when a SIM card was actually credit card sized. It could be inserted directed into the back of a nokia mobile phone... Also, did you know that the SIM is a full fledged computing device that can run programs writing in Java Micro Edition?
I'm In Panama and I was surprised the moment I knew my local carrier has eSim compatiblity, the process was quick and easy and I haven't got an issue at all, I've even traveled to another country and the roaming was perfect.
In 3GPP cellular, the SIM doesn't just permit network authentication of the subscriber identity - it also permits the subscriber to authenticate the network. You audience might like a video short briefly discussing the difference between eSIM for consumer segments and eSIM for IoT. The former uses QR code to 'pull' the SIM profile from the network, while the latter allows for the SIM profile to be 'pushed' from the network. The underlying tech is the same but the two approaches serve different uses cases. Meanwhile, the GSMA group that creates eSIM standards is gradually moving towards a version of the standards that could in principle see the two eventually converge. The key message today is that customers need to know which eSIM model they're after because they don't do - and don't aim to - the same thing. In particular eSIM is not a solution for improving coverage.
And to add, there's often confusion between eSIM (we really mean eUICC, which permits the SIM profile switching) and embedded SIMs (which simply means the MFF2/VQFN8 solderable form factors). Most plug-in SIMs shipped today support eUICC, i.e.: eSIM profiling. You don't actually need a SIM soldered to the PCB to have eSIM.
Great video! Which are the best eSIM shops or providers? I know about MobiMatter and they seem great ... anyone with more affordable deals than them? I can't find cheaper deals...
I can predict the next feature that apple is going to remove from the iphone. PHYSICAL BUTTONS. They'll replace it with touch sensitive capacitive keys and use the taptic engine to give you the "Feel" of pressing the button.
I doubt it, if they wanted to do it, they would have done it years ago. Apple is literally the only phone manufacturer who still has a physical mute button on their phones. They also make very nice (=expensive) buttons, with strong tactile feedback. That said, people were very skeptical about the home button on the newer SE not being a physical button. The taptic engine unironically made it feel like pressing an actual button.
I mean, that is the only "easy" to remove feature that is left. And when they have already done it with the SE home button, it won't take long for them to move over to the volume and power keys
Considering SIMs are basically glorified login codes, I was baffled for years how we can have these neat smart phones, but still need to store the password a dedicated chip thingy. No more having to drive to the carrier to get a new sized SIM, just download the app, aka activate your connection.
you drive past 20 of them getting to work.....youre losing control of a device you paid a small fortune to own so they can control the used phone market (again) and make you need to pay double (again) you might be too young to remember theyve done this before
@@kazzxtrismus it sounds no different to the standard carrier-locking that exists with traditional SIM chips. It’s not like Apple/Android have much to gain from artificially locking you to the network on an unlocked device. They’d get large amounts of negative PR without any fiscal benefit, and loosing a selling point.
@@alexwolfeboy Carriers pay phone manufacturers (all of them) to do it, people won't stop buying phones because it's harder or easier to switch carriers.
@@FastSloth87 I mean, I know of no phone manufacture who locked devices unless under a carrier lock, because it’s like under lease, and according to the FEC carriers are legally obligated to unlocked your phone once paid off, free of charge. While I see the thought process, they’re not evil, just profit-motivated, and I don’t really see the profit motive for doing such a ballsy move that’d potentially kill a phone company, and your carrier. They’re within their rights to lock a device under-payment, and legally obligated to unlock one paid off, an eSIM doesn’t change this. And let’s say a AT&T (for example) DID pay Apple (for example) to lock their members phones down outside of the aforementioned cases. I’d bet money within the week they’d have lawsuits from the other players on anti-competition lawsuits and probably a host of other issues.
In Europe now you don't really need to swap sim when traveling. A European agreement let you message and phone for free between EU countries and many providers include data too.
@@paulelderson934 what ? I don't understand your point
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Recently i went to Germany and had terrible connection there. My phone kept dropping connection to 2G! This also happens in Belgium sometimes. But better consistent 5G there. Maybe because I have kpn from the Netherlands. The issue isn't my phone because my wife's and others i know have the same issue going abroad. Carrier's in the EU still have a lot of issues to work out imho.
From my what I know. I think Apple is the only one in the US to take away the sim slot. The rest of the world knows that esim is restricting switching services a lot more difficult and expensive.
Nice. Before I can just move my SIM from a phone to another easily, now I must ask assistance (read: permission) from the operator before I can do it. Cool.
@@CanIHasThisName while the service is still available, yes. If the last few years have taught us anything, it's that important tech services are anything but permanent. What if they decide to restrict the number of swaps? What if they place region restrictions on them? What if they decide down the road to sunset older eSIM systems? A physical SIM will work so long as the network tech is still supported (e.g. 4G), can't say that much for eSIM.
@@aeriumfour6096My boy, there is nothing in terms of the tech that would prevent them implementing everything you've described on physical SIMs. Your phone has a unique IMEI. As long as the device is powered and within range of towers, this number can be used to identify your phone even when it doesn't have a SIM card in it. The SIM is then a separate unique identifier which merely confirms that you're a paying customer. In other words, your carrier doesn't just know what your SIM is, they also know what device you're using it in. They also know when you start using it in a different device. When you insert it into your phone, the carrier needs to accept it. They indeed can reject it in certain circumstance, and it really doesn't matter whether it's a physical SIM or an eSIM. US being a shitty exception because carriers there suck, theyway that eSIM is supposed to work is that you get a QR code (which you can store in your gallery, PC, email or print it and have it in your wallet or something) and when you need to activate it, you just scan it with your phone. If you can't scan it for whatever reason, you also get a number which you can enter manually. And that's it, nothing else is required unless the carrier puts nonsensical restrictions in place. It's kinda like logging into your account, just with different kinds of credentials.
How about making phones more usefull than thinner. I dont remmmeber anybody complain about old phobes. Imagine a moder S23 Ultra but with headphone jack, mini sim and external sd. They can fit a freakin pen inside it but sim is too big?
If you have a see-through small empty prescription bottle that you washed out and it's dry, you have a waterproof (if you have the right kind) place to store the old SIM, and it's something that passes through customs easily.. todays worth it tidbit 😊
Reminds me of CDMA phones back in the day. They didn't use a SIM, they just had a ROM on the board with the MEID on it so the carrier knows what device is meant to get service. I remember hating CDMA for that reason. I really hope carriers arent going to try and do this again by preventing you from switching.
so now their removing more functionality from an already expensive poor form factor device? I have a new motorola and have my headphone jack, micro sd card and sim card. I still refuse to buy any phone without those 3 things, it makes the user experience even worse than it already is since its a tiny little touchscreen. The other day the bluetooth in the car wasn't working for some reason, since I had a headphone jack I just plugged it into the aux cable and continued listening to my music. If I would have made a poor decision like buying from apple or samsung I wouldn't have been able to do that. What happens when my phone breaks and all my pictures and videos are on non removable internal storage instead of a removable sd card? what happens if I don't want to use bluetooth headphones? what happens if I want to transfer my sim card to an old phone because my main one is broken or getting service for a few days? do 3mm really need to be saved when they can fit a stupid pen into the phone? I think not
@@Warp2090 Some phones have had 2 SIM slots, but the second SIM slot can be used as a MicroSD card slot if you don't use the dual SIMs. The Nokia 6 had this feature for some models but my European version only seemed to support 1 SIM and 1 MicroSD.
What happens if your phone breaks? Now you gotta call instead of just taking out the SIM? And abroad is gonna take a lot longer than a couple of years. Your best bet while traveling is to get a prepaid hotspot.
I actually prefer esim. No more having to swap around sims! I’ve got 3 lines active on my iPhone by 3 different carriers. All 3 different carrier using esim my phone has 8 esim’s. Simply Gave the carriers mi esim and the over the air program your phone.
If a phone doesn't have two sim slots, a microsd card slot and a heaphone jack I'm not buying it. If it costs more than 500 euros, I'm not buying it. If I can't "sideload" apps, you guessed it, I'm not buying it.
I'm still mad about phone manufacturers taking out the headphone jack, why yes, it's a great move to switch to Bluetooth, they are still so many reasons not to mention a lot of the times it's a hassle to connect to Bluetooth. And how much space did it really save? I wouldn't mind my phone being slightly bigger just so that way I can have a headphone jack.
yes... and so many still offer headphone jacks and are pretty sleek (currently waiting for next gen sony xperia for that)
currently using old oneplus 3 and can use all headphones including high impedance ones. meanwhile I connect to a soundlink mini 2 via bluetooth and want to switch to a car bluetooth or back it tries to find the other device for a little while before it lets me connect to the new device its so annoying. Its actually quicker to "forget device" and "add new bluetooth device" in my case... why is bluetooth so broken? I just dont get it!
(I heard it has to have something to do with the >20 protocols bluetooth has or whatever they were called but still... pls at least fix that before forcing consumers to buy wireless headphones)
And don't forget the microSD card reader that is disappearing from phones. "Just use Cloud storage" is not a solution since I don't trust them with my data.
you could still use bluetooth and have the headphone jack, its not one or the other
But you already have a USB-C port, it's not like Bluetooth is the only option. The port just changed, like every single connection has done over and over.
Just this time they changed it to a good one and it's looking like it will stay for a while.
@@paulelderson934 dongles are an another point of failure. And generally they are for some reason prompt to fail.
First headphone jack, then micro sd expansion, then SIM cards. Next step: eCameras, the cameras are inside the phone so the phone is sleeker with no disruption of the back side design.
Instead of taking pictures, you shall just describe the scene around you and your phone will generate the image you expected to take.
Usb port and speaker will come first
@@Der-Kleine Now this is the AI future I was promised!
Google/Apple uses your location to automatically generate photos around you so you don't even need to think about taking pictures.
Espeakers, No more speakers or microphone in your phone.
So it can be truly water resistant and force you to wear iPods all the bloody time.
@@MsUltrafox Did you mean: Airpods?
Why do carriers have to support iSIM differently than eSIM? Is it not just an abstracted hardware interface at this point? Why would the provisioning process need to be any different for the carrier?
esim is total trash physical sims are way better than the esim cause I can swap the sim in other phones
@@billyhatcher643glad you added to his question
@@billyhatcher643you literally can switch you esim from one device to other, its the same
@@billyhatcher643ya and so cana thief after stealing your device and then through OTPs getting access to all your online data including your Bank account.
@@MarcSpctr ever heard of SIM PIN? also, please don't use SMS 2FA
The most appealing fact about those sim-options for phone companies is to lock down the used phone market.
Yep.
I mean, it’s no different to your phone being carrier locked now. Once the phones (e)SIM is no longer carrier locked, you can change networks easily, at least if you’re using a major carrier.
And to make hardware bans more enforceable rather than swap out the sim and ope I'm back lol
Only in America 😂
American problems. In Brazil carrier locking is illegal for over a decade
At some point companies went from “How can we make the product better and/or more affordable?” To “How can we get them to pay more for a *less practical* product?”
Planned obsolescence and subscription models are the favorite tools of the oppressive tech companies.
And "How can we basically strong arm people into NOT wanting to change to our competition".
WEF's you will own nothing and be happy.
time to go old school and start giving life to our postal services if this keeps up.
@@MegaOS_Ver_NEET That was a theoretical thought experiment, not a plan or prediction!
Actually many carriers didn’t want to go eSim because it is considerably easy to migrate to other carriers. What are you talking about? 😂
LOL thats really not what happened. Waterproof phones and demand for pocket-ability did. You can have a headphone jack & removable battery or you can have effective waterproofing.
I heard Apple are doing a new phone that is not only carrier locked to AT&T, but also requires a daily offering of affection and cash to both companies. It's based on iSimp technology.
for an extra 20 a month you can get the simpharder addon, where your ring tone is one octave higher.
iSimp fr
And Google will continue to collude with handset vendors to keep people on the upgrade train. Google will continually refuse to make Android in such a way it can be installed and updated as effortlessly as Windows or Linux. Meanwhile... over at Microsoft...🪟
I thought you were describing the original for a sec there
That does raise a good point, handsets are nowhere near as durable as they used to be. I for one refuse to go with anything other than the most durable handset, features be damned.
* Posted from my Nokia 3310.
Freaky timing, I just switched to my first esim yesterday. Was actually quite simple; just scanned a QR code, it programed the sim, one reboot, and was done.
Also removing the sim tray also removes the ability to expand storage using a microSD card. So the easy transfer of user info between phones is not the only thing they took out by shedding the physical SIM altogether.
Having experienced what can go wrong with devices that do not have MicroSD I wouldn't knowingly pick one that doesn't have today. But that was true before eSIM.
Next they will remove the charging port & only use the wireless charging.
OMG! I forgot all about losing the SD card tray! Damn!
my phone has sd sim and esim the best of both worlds its the a54 5g @@Millieshin-yj5mb
you didn't talk about dual sim. Very popular in asia, and with people who frequently travel between countries that have different providers (e.g. US and Canada). physical sims used to make that super easy ofc, but only models made for asia would have the 2nd tray, US/EU models often using that same space for SDcards. With esim, lesser known advantage is that at least currently most esim phones **also** have a physical sim tray - making it a dual sim phone by default. This is the first time you could get totl dual sim phones in america. I fear the move completely away from physical sim will get us back to the days of dual sim being rare in the americas and europe - you'd need 2 esim chips which ppl aren't likely to put in there i assume.
iSIM takes almost no place at all, so... screw Dual SIM, welcome Multi SIM - 10 SIMs at once!
Here in South Africa, it is almost impossible to get a phone that is not dual sim that has not been released in the past few years. It is almost a standard this side.
Same in UK
The iPhone 14 line with esim lets you store multiple sims on one phone similar to physical dual sim
Ok, but what are the phones that actually have this function? With a quick search on GSM Arena i could only find 17 models (discounting the lots of S20 series variables) that have both a SD slot and an eSIM. Unfortunately the market is moving to not having SD card, with newer phones rarely having it available.
One of the advantages of GSM over CDMA was the Sim card how easy it made taking your phone abroad, selling it after you got a new phone, or having two different carriers on the same phone, but eSims sound really inconvenient (by design).
"advantages of GSM over CDMA" ?
what do you think R-UIM card is?
On iPhone you can have up to 6 different sims at any one time and have two active at the same time.
@@AschKrismany thanks for sharing this
mostly for carier restricted phones which not every carier does (except USA cariers)
@@AschKristhey say up to 9
Well done to the editor that timed the 'Hi' really well to the 10 sec jump that we all do as soon as we work out the sponsor part starts.
I love how the b roll for removing a sim card isn't even a phone. It's the gpd xp a gaming handheld. 😂
Replacing sim with esim/ isim would be easier to stomach if they used the physical space to give back micro SD.
I have an e-sim for my main provider and a free sim slot for if I need a temporary data sim if I'm traveling. Works great.
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Phone companies and ISPs should be sued for monopolistic practices. This is getting out of hand.
Well, what I know of the FCC it seems as a pretty corrupt organization.
How is this monopolistic? If you buy a phone from a carrier for a subsidized price, it's going to be locked to that carrier until you pay it off. Where does the monopoly come in?
@@DavidKen878 I don't think they were necessarily talking about phone locking, that already exists and would better be described as anti-competitive.
@@epender How?
eSIM and iSIM is more a thing phone companies are doing tho 🤔
Ahh, I remember back when the information on a SIM card was a part of the phone instead. Caused quite the headache when Sprint first started supporting LTE (and the associated, necessary SIM card) but some of their call center workers didn't get the memo. Now we've come full circle.
It's not just the size of the SIM, but the slot and contact support around it.
Canadian iPhone 14 still has the SIM tray.
Yep but apple is thought to remove the sim tray all together on the 15, gosh im happy i switched to android
its super thin...the bump out for the camera on many phones is thicker
@@kazzxtrismus It's the internal volume that is prime.
@@Warp2090 If that's all it takes .../s
Crazy how Sony can put everything the other phone manufacturers removed on their latest phones.
Even though I still use physical sims (dual physical sims specifically) on my S23, eSIM on my iPhone didn't give me any issues at all. It just needs to be widely adopted by Telcos.
Or, maybe it doesn't, at all. 🤷♂
Does eSIM require mobile data or to be connected to a wifi? What if you do not have data nor can you take a wifi at places, can you still have the signal hitting the eSIM and making phone calls???
@@spencer6288 Even if you don’t have mobile data or WiFi, as long as you downloaded your eSIM, your eSIM will still function well. Just like a normal SIM card. You can still make/receive calls and send/receive SMS.
@@spencer6288 It needs to be connected to a server at first to provision it. Once that is done, its like a normal sim.
I switched to Esim and an online phone over a year ago and never looked back. Dent Esim works in 70 countries and automatically switches between countries and data load does not expire for 365 days. My online Canadian number is Free and I have a phone number anytime I have data, Esim or WiFi. When I go to a country for a longer time to film some vlogs for my RUclips channel, I buy a local sim card.
AUX-jack, charge-jack and sim-card slot. 3 things I refuse to not have in a phone.
I agree. I would add must have MicroSD slot, OLED and removable battery. I have a Shift 6mq.
@@Foersom_ yes, i was searching for a comment mentioning removable batteries. I hated it when they got rid of it in phones.
Thanks for picking Schiphol (AMS) as the image for an airport on 04:13
I had no problem switching from T-Mobile (sim card) to Mint (eSIM). Mint had no problem selling out to T-Mobile. Thanks, Ryan Reynolds.
i am neither american nor do i use tmobile or mint but the fact that it was all business and he sold out like that pissed me off. haven't watched his another video after that
@@hotedits1991Wooooow, you're a badass....
Mint already operated on T-Mobile their network.
@@jody024 still not as same as literally getting bought out by tmobile. i have no hate toward tmobile or love for mint. it's the brutalistic business move that to be perfectly honest gave me a reality check that Ryan Reynolds with his infinite charisma is still a businessman doing what businessman do; make profits.
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Hi that was really informative and well delivered. Thank you for sharing
I've had physical Sim cards die. They do contain NAND flash after all, and after about 5 years they're usually dead. My new phone was acting strange, thought I'd have to request warranty service or get a replacement. Turns out it was my old Sim card I had carried over many phones for many years. New Sim fixed it completely. Hopefully eSIM don't have this issue? Because of they do.. That's not great.
My SIM has been going on for a decade
@@BichaelStevensame here, my mom's previous SIM lasted 11 years, and she could've gotten more out of it if she didn't go into the carrier's shop for some tech support. The guy there opened up her phone and was shocked to see what was previously a bright red SIM card become a white, scratched piece of plastic that somehow still worked.
She now has an even brighter red SIM card.
My SIM is probably a decade old
Indeed plug-in SIMs do expire. Typically a consumer SIM is rated for two years and 500k erase/write cycles. Industrial SIMs usually rated for ten years.
Heat, cold, humidity, vibration, constantly swapping, writing lots of things to SIM memory... all contribute to shorter lifecycle. I've seen a customer accidentally make writes to SIM memory many times a minute, causing their SIMs to self-destruct within a few weeks!
Whether a particular embedded SIM (... supporting eSIM profiles) is of the consumer or industrial variety is down to the manufacturer and carrier contracting with them.
@@BichaelStevens my previous SIM lasted 6ish years, as soon as I got a new one I suddenly had signal in locations I never had signal, I had HD calling which for some reason never worked with the previous SIM. It may “work” but it may not be optimal for a newer phone. ,
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That “Wow, thank you” was so sweet that I changed tabs to come back here and give a like as well as comment.
Most carriers around the world, most notably around Latin America and the majority of Asia will not sell you eSIMs without a plan and even if you get an eSIM, they completely block transferring it between devices or even sometimes trasnfering the phone line/number itself, so each time you upgrade your phone, better cough up another eSIM plan purchase, removing the sim card is such an.... petty thing like, seriously, why even bother lmao, also when travelling, some countries require ID or registration when buying SIM cards (even without a plan) and eSIMs are not sold to foreigners in some countries, so if you have your brand new iPhone without an sim tray, too bad.
People that can afford an iPhone 14 and who are constantly travelling overseas that they need a foreign SIM card can afford a spare phone for their overseas use.
I enjoyed and smiled watching your video. You explain very it simple. Greetings from Buenos Aires
Isim definitely sounds like the way to go but we need proper consumer protection laws so you can use whatever Sims you like by whatever provider you want.
When we upgraded my dad's iPhone X...we had to go with a 13 Pro because of the eSim in the 14 Pro because our carrier, Ting, didn't support eSims when we were upgrading.
The addition of just "courage" was so beautiful 🤣🤣🤣
Great video as always, very informative. Would it be possible to do a video about volte as many carriers are switching off 3G
Yeah thats sad, in our vehicle we have a 3g fliphone for emergencys with like alot of minutes
@@Warp2090 at least 2g will be here for some more years, switching it off won't be as easy
I did a complete signup on a European carrier before visiting. Went to the website, paid with a CC, they emailed a QR code with the SIM information. Scanned it. Boom, network.
Will I finally be able to replace my battery again?
ofc not, they making stuf worse, not better
only with a heat gun to melt the glue and a lot of patience
@@nijamkaj true,
I learned it the hard way when I was trying to buy a phone holder for my motorcylcle.
Every single one supports only super slim phones.
My phone is 20mm thick, 99% of those holders support 12mm or less.
@Stanley; With Shift 6mq you can.
4:13 cool, you guys chose Amsterdam Schiphol airport as your vacation destination!
The one time I tried using eSIM it just simply didn't work. PROBABLY because the phone didn't have any physical sim in the slot so I couldn't see the + to add the eSIM. The + is now there after inserting a physical SIM.
ANYWAY, that's good to know about those providers that apply abroad apps... I might check pricing. But I think I'll just mooch off a pocket WiFi from the person I'm visiting lol
having or not having a physical sim is completely irrelevant when activating a esim
I wish more phones had ESIMs. Only the most expensive phones do. If I were able to have more than one cell service on a phone, I'd travel more. I don't want to switch tiny sim card during vacation!
I don't have too much issue with eSIMs. I mean, it made setting up the device and swapping devices pretty easy. The bigger issue will always be carrier compatibility. But I have Google Fi, and as long as I'm on wifi, I don't have to worry about trying to switch to a local carrier or something. Even in a country that Fi doesn't support.
swapping a sim card takes like 3 seconds and a reboot....you need to do more and wait for esim
i swap cards every few days when travelling
@@kazzxtrismus even a reboot is not necessary nowadays
@@kazzxtrismus That's an unfair comparison lol, with physical sim you still have to go to the store in person or wait for it to ship...
If you're comparing the case where you already have access to the sim, esim is still way easier, you don't even need a sim tool to swap it out, you just do it in the settings app.
The inconveniences of esim are just because carriers making it hard
@@kvendy yeah true.. still good practice tho if youve only got 1 slot.....besides a reboot occasionally is good practice anyways
@@Summer-xu8qu everyone drives past a cell providers store or 20 every day....where i am getting esim working takes a 2 hr phone call cuz they suck....once loaded/setup the change is very seamless i agree...but im also not dumb enough to give my fingerprint or use face ID instead of a code or pattern to get in my phone....im not so in love with tech as to sell out society as a whole for a 1/10th second improvement in speed
One misconception regarding SIMs: it’s not only data, it’s a computer in itself! A SIM contains a CPU, crypto modules, I/O interfaces toward RF and the host system, (ie the Phone) and at last GSM-provider registration data. All on such a tiny thing as SIM-card !
Meanwhile i use to fidget with it back when i used to swap sd cards lol
PLEASE guys make a Techquickie about how to TRANSFER a phone number from one eSIM phone to another eSIM phone while NOT changing carriers. Sometimes I need to transfer my phone number from my large, breakable, expensive phone to a smaller, cheap phone. I don't want to have to involve the carrier. With a physical SIM I simply move the SIM from one phone to the other. It might be fiddley but it takes less than a minute.
I asked the question to someone who was an "expert" and all I got was silence.
Sounds like you want a SIP client rather than a SIM. What you describe is abstracting the number away from the carrier, which means using a carrier (+SIM) to give you a data session for IP traffic and then obtain your number from a SIP provider. There are telcos that do this, though it is very niche.
@@DorkaliciousAF Thanks for the quick response. But it's not that complex. I guess I didn't make it clear.
I can move a SIM from one phone to another phone. Same phone number, same carrier. 📱📲
I want to accomplish the same thing with two phones that have eSIM's. 📱📲
@@Nedski42YT Can't you use the app to make the switch?
@@DavidKen878 What app is that? If you're switching your phone number between eSIM phones I'd love to know how you do it!
I'm currently using Mint Mobile and with two Google Pixel phones that have both SIM and eSIM.
I'm asking about this procedure now because in the near future new cellphones will not have SIM cards and I want to be able to do it without having to contact the carrier.
@@Nedski42YT All carriers have an eSIM app that lets you set up new phones. That's how I set up my Mint Mobile eSIM.
Some Phone Companies offers Dual Sim Slot plus eSIM support, and should have a contract between phone manufacturer and service provider in that region.
"You will own nothing and you will be happy"
I watched this guy for literally 45 seconds and subscribed cause the personality bro❤❤10/10
With the extremely small size and integrated nature of iSIM, it would be good to see manufacturers implement multiple chips, eg. 3... so you can have a personal number, work number and a free slot for international traveling.
Haha, silly it isn't made to be more practical, its made to lock you the fuck down to a single operator and kill secondary market sales.
@@notkarma2984 i suppose that explains why Esims are forced in US only, everywhere else has consumer protection
You can do that now with eSIMs.
I could watch these guys all day
Alternatively you can just not have a single sim card at all and just have access to emergency services
That used to be a reliable approach in 2G/3G, but in some territories the LEAs lobbied to require telcos to require the use of a SIM to make an emergency call.
In 4G networks and later voice calls are carried across a data session, which telcos won't permit without a SIM anyway.
I seriously cant get enough of Riley vids. I bet he's a blast at parties.
Time to bring back house phones with cords
Bring back? Lol we still have one. We have 2 actually, one in our kitchen on the wall its a mint green at&t phone from the 80's probably, we also have a train phone that looks like a old steam engine and makes a train noise when someone calls. We also have answering machine.
@@Warp2090 Also some other slow developing countries are actually still using A LOT of them
@@sihamhamda47 Yep, and cordless landlines exist for people who dont want the old stuff
So if my phone dies and I want to switch to a new phone, now I will need to call my carrier so they can send me a QR code? I can't just switch the physical card that I own into another phone that I own without involving the subscription service provider? That's horrible, please don't ever buy a phone without a physical SIM card.
That's always been the case for me tho. I had 2 phones, both from boost mobile. I shattered the newer one and when i tried to swap the sim card to use it on the older one, they blocked the card entirely.
I pay $13.000 CLP (sorta like 16 USD) for 180 GBs and unlimited calls in Chile, and if I don't use the data I get to keep it for next month lol
Thanks for the information!
I remember when a SIM card was actually credit card sized. It could be inserted directed into the back of a nokia mobile phone...
Also, did you know that the SIM is a full fledged computing device that can run programs writing in Java Micro Edition?
i still have a multi-card reader that can read mini-SIM but i don't know what it used for, i am born too late for it 😭
I greatly appreciate educational videos like this 👍🏻
I'm In Panama and I was surprised the moment I knew my local carrier has eSim compatiblity, the process was quick and easy and I haven't got an issue at all, I've even traveled to another country and the roaming was perfect.
Well you’re welcome thank you for the whole video. Your great 👍
In 3GPP cellular, the SIM doesn't just permit network authentication of the subscriber identity - it also permits the subscriber to authenticate the network.
You audience might like a video short briefly discussing the difference between eSIM for consumer segments and eSIM for IoT. The former uses QR code to 'pull' the SIM profile from the network, while the latter allows for the SIM profile to be 'pushed' from the network. The underlying tech is the same but the two approaches serve different uses cases. Meanwhile, the GSMA group that creates eSIM standards is gradually moving towards a version of the standards that could in principle see the two eventually converge.
The key message today is that customers need to know which eSIM model they're after because they don't do - and don't aim to - the same thing. In particular eSIM is not a solution for improving coverage.
And to add, there's often confusion between eSIM (we really mean eUICC, which permits the SIM profile switching) and embedded SIMs (which simply means the MFF2/VQFN8 solderable form factors).
Most plug-in SIMs shipped today support eUICC, i.e.: eSIM profiling. You don't actually need a SIM soldered to the PCB to have eSIM.
Great video! Which are the best eSIM shops or providers? I know about MobiMatter and they seem great ... anyone with more affordable deals than them? I can't find cheaper deals...
I can predict the next feature that apple is going to remove from the iphone. PHYSICAL BUTTONS. They'll replace it with touch sensitive capacitive keys and use the taptic engine to give you the "Feel" of pressing the button.
I doubt it, if they wanted to do it, they would have done it years ago. Apple is literally the only phone manufacturer who still has a physical mute button on their phones. They also make very nice (=expensive) buttons, with strong tactile feedback.
That said, people were very skeptical about the home button on the newer SE not being a physical button. The taptic engine unironically made it feel like pressing an actual button.
I mean, that is the only "easy" to remove feature that is left. And when they have already done it with the SE home button, it won't take long for them to move over to the volume and power keys
My current Pay-as-you-go £10/m
Comparable e-sim £22/m
Sticking with my iPhone 13 Pro as long as I can because if this.
The evolution on flagships is going backwards, ditching features here and there.
This will be a major blow to cellphone thieves. I can't figure out why Apple would make a phone with no headphone jack? and no power supply.
Considering SIMs are basically glorified login codes, I was baffled for years how we can have these neat smart phones, but still need to store the password a dedicated chip thingy. No more having to drive to the carrier to get a new sized SIM, just download the app, aka activate your connection.
you drive past 20 of them getting to work.....youre losing control of a device you paid a small fortune to own so they can control the used phone market (again) and make you need to pay double (again)
you might be too young to remember theyve done this before
@@kazzxtrismus it sounds no different to the standard carrier-locking that exists with traditional SIM chips. It’s not like Apple/Android have much to gain from artificially locking you to the network on an unlocked device. They’d get large amounts of negative PR without any fiscal benefit, and loosing a selling point.
@@alexwolfeboy Carriers pay phone manufacturers (all of them) to do it, people won't stop buying phones because it's harder or easier to switch carriers.
@@FastSloth87 I mean, I know of no phone manufacture who locked devices unless under a carrier lock, because it’s like under lease, and according to the FEC carriers are legally obligated to unlocked your phone once paid off, free of charge. While I see the thought process, they’re not evil, just profit-motivated, and I don’t really see the profit motive for doing such a ballsy move that’d potentially kill a phone company, and your carrier. They’re within their rights to lock a device under-payment, and legally obligated to unlock one paid off, an eSIM doesn’t change this.
And let’s say a AT&T (for example) DID pay Apple (for example) to lock their members phones down outside of the aforementioned cases. I’d bet money within the week they’d have lawsuits from the other players on anti-competition lawsuits and probably a host of other issues.
0:08 my guy turned into Mr. Boomhauer from King of the Hill
And you are in-bachbagbabacabarbbcab
In Europe now you don't really need to swap sim when traveling. A European agreement let you message and phone for free between EU countries and many providers include data too.
Imagine hating everything about that and instead wanting to leave. The schadenfreude is real.
@@paulelderson934 what ? I don't understand your point
Recently i went to Germany and had terrible connection there. My phone kept dropping connection to 2G! This also happens in Belgium sometimes. But better consistent 5G there.
Maybe because I have kpn from the Netherlands. The issue isn't my phone because my wife's and others i know have the same issue going abroad.
Carrier's in the EU still have a lot of issues to work out imho.
It dosent give you your full plan while roaming, there is a "responsible use" clause that limits how much data you can use of your plan while roaming.
@ Guess you have a bad provider then. Mine is working fine and I have 25 GB abroad and unlimited in my country.
Thanks Riley!
I really see this move to kill the second hand market and force ppl to buy a new phone or pay for a sim swap.
From my what I know. I think Apple is the only one in the US to take away the sim slot. The rest of the world knows that esim is restricting switching services a lot more difficult and expensive.
The 2020 Motorola razr is the first phone forego the SIM Card.
I would rather have a physical SIM card as I tend to switch devices quite a bit just in case one needs a repair.
You can have a physical card with the activation data.
@@CanIHasThisName If you have an iPhone 14 or 15, its only eSIM. If you have a newer Pixel or Galaxy, its one or the other.
Thanks.👍
I always thought the "i" stood for ignorance
Nice. Before I can just move my SIM from a phone to another easily, now I must ask assistance (read: permission) from the operator before I can do it. Cool.
And down the hill we go
Here in the UK most contract phones are sim free, not sure about crApple though if they still sim lock to the first card you put in it.
God Save The King
"Want to easily swap between numbers? Buy a new phone, losers!" - Manufacturers
Except swapping eSIM is easier.
@@CanIHasThisName while the service is still available, yes.
If the last few years have taught us anything, it's that important tech services are anything but permanent. What if they decide to restrict the number of swaps? What if they place region restrictions on them? What if they decide down the road to sunset older eSIM systems?
A physical SIM will work so long as the network tech is still supported (e.g. 4G), can't say that much for eSIM.
@@aeriumfour6096My boy, there is nothing in terms of the tech that would prevent them implementing everything you've described on physical SIMs.
Your phone has a unique IMEI. As long as the device is powered and within range of towers, this number can be used to identify your phone even when it doesn't have a SIM card in it.
The SIM is then a separate unique identifier which merely confirms that you're a paying customer.
In other words, your carrier doesn't just know what your SIM is, they also know what device you're using it in. They also know when you start using it in a different device. When you insert it into your phone, the carrier needs to accept it. They indeed can reject it in certain circumstance, and it really doesn't matter whether it's a physical SIM or an eSIM.
US being a shitty exception because carriers there suck, theyway that eSIM is supposed to work is that you get a QR code (which you can store in your gallery, PC, email or print it and have it in your wallet or something) and when you need to activate it, you just scan it with your phone. If you can't scan it for whatever reason, you also get a number which you can enter manually. And that's it, nothing else is required unless the carrier puts nonsensical restrictions in place. It's kinda like logging into your account, just with different kinds of credentials.
That isn't the model. eSIM is not TACS or CDMA.
@4:13 a bit of Dutch: Schiphol Airport main hall / NS train station
How about making phones more usefull than thinner.
I dont remmmeber anybody complain about old phobes.
Imagine a moder S23 Ultra but with headphone jack, mini sim and external sd.
They can fit a freakin pen inside it but sim is too big?
the pen is like 10 times bigger and is about 10 times as useless
Another benefit is that you can store much more than just 2 sims on the device. Like on iPhone 13 and below, the number is 8. On 14, its even higher
But Iphone nowadays is thicker and getting thicker.
If you have a see-through small empty prescription bottle that you washed out and it's dry, you have a waterproof (if you have the right kind) place to store the old SIM, and it's something that passes through customs easily.. todays worth it tidbit 😊
Sim card supremacy
Travelling to Asia this December. Any suggestions for a good E-SIM service?
*When your isp still dosent support IPv6*
Reminds me of CDMA phones back in the day. They didn't use a SIM, they just had a ROM on the board with the MEID on it so the carrier knows what device is meant to get service. I remember hating CDMA for that reason. I really hope carriers arent going to try and do this again by preventing you from switching.
so now their removing more functionality from an already expensive poor form factor device? I have a new motorola and have my headphone jack, micro sd card and sim card. I still refuse to buy any phone without those 3 things, it makes the user experience even worse than it already is since its a tiny little touchscreen. The other day the bluetooth in the car wasn't working for some reason, since I had a headphone jack I just plugged it into the aux cable and continued listening to my music. If I would have made a poor decision like buying from apple or samsung I wouldn't have been able to do that. What happens when my phone breaks and all my pictures and videos are on non removable internal storage instead of a removable sd card? what happens if I don't want to use bluetooth headphones? what happens if I want to transfer my sim card to an old phone because my main one is broken or getting service for a few days? do 3mm really need to be saved when they can fit a stupid pen into the phone? I think not
When I traveled to Japan . They had no idea what to do with my phone. The sim lady had the same exact phone but hers used a physical sim
If we fuss enough the EU will fix it for everyone else.
Only if it hurts American companies...
Travelling for work, I'm very glad my phone has two physical SIM slots.
I'd actually prefer it if it had three.
ESIM seems like a hassle.
yep
or if it had 3 slots but 2 were sim and 1 was sd card (storage expansion)
@@Warp2090 Some phones have had 2 SIM slots, but the second SIM slot can be used as a MicroSD card slot if you don't use the dual SIMs. The Nokia 6 had this feature for some models but my European version only seemed to support 1 SIM and 1 MicroSD.
@@epender Thats cool!
@@Warp2090 Shift 6mq has that.
I like my physical sim
They looked at Denuvo and thought
„Ye man let’s do that too but for Sim“
should've mentioned how this isn't the first time phones have not used sims, The iphone 4 CDMA didn't use a SIM card for example.
all cdma phones originally didnt have a sim
What happens if your phone breaks? Now you gotta call instead of just taking out the SIM? And abroad is gonna take a lot longer than a couple of years. Your best bet while traveling is to get a prepaid hotspot.
Pick a model that has dual SIM (embedded + plug-in).
I won’t ever buy a phone with an esim
same, still haven't bought a phone without a headphone jack or micro SD card slot
Your moustache is fabulous. How often do you feed it?
I'd rather stick to physical SIM.
I dread my next phone because my current one had a slot for added storage. There are some phones that have two sim slots.
I actually prefer esim. No more having to swap around sims! I’ve got 3 lines active on my iPhone by 3 different carriers. All 3 different carrier using esim my phone has 8 esim’s. Simply Gave the carriers mi esim and the over the air program your phone.
nah putting a sim in a new phone is way easyer than doing all the complicated code and qr stuff its annoying
@@Warp2090 No, it's easily for you because you're lazy.
That and getting rid of sd cards really hurt the used market.
If a phone doesn't have two sim slots, a microsd card slot and a heaphone jack I'm not buying it.
If it costs more than 500 euros, I'm not buying it.
If I can't "sideload" apps, you guessed it, I'm not buying it.
Sounds like you and the Xperia 10 lineup would be best friends. Or 5 second hands.
@@Shimapan Maybe... Although I usually look at Chinese brands when searching for a new phone.
IMPOSSIBLE 🔥#freefire #headshothacker #granmasterloby
Moore's Law is skewed for sim cards! It's not SIM-ple any-Moore