• Treatyoself@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    You know I just realized this myself a month or so ago. I swore my 14 had a SIM card slot. I was arguing about it with a friend. and whatta ya know, it’s “there” just glued in and inaccessible. That is some straight up bullshit.

    I have a US factory unlocked iPhone. 🙄

    • Jessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      It’s an eSIM. I’ve switched carriers twice using just the eSIM in my iPhone 13. What is the problem with that?

      Edit: grammar

      • alternative_igloo@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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        1 year ago

        It gives your carrier too much control over what you do with a device you own and makes it pretty much impossible to use burner SIMs. Just bad for privacy in general.

      • rmuk@feddit.uk
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        1 year ago

        A lot of carriers don’t support eSIM, especially internationally, and here in the UK a lot of carriers only offer eSIMs on specific tarrifs. Some also put restrictions on the type of devices you’re allowed to use them in which is hard to enforce with physical SIMs.

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          1 year ago

          There should be regulation to force carriers to adopt eSIM? Physical SIM cards are an anachronism that should have died a long time ago.

      • Treatyoself@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        No problem at all. I like eSIM. I wasn’t complaining, It just caught me off guard. Why block the physical sim card try? If it’s an option else where, why am I restricted?

        Also, I have old parents. It’s not easy for them to figure this out (as much as I try to explain these things to them) if they are traveling abroad. They just see it as barrier instead of just popping in a local sim card.

        • ephemeral_gibbon@aussie.zone
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          1 year ago

          However I’m not sure that every carrier around the world has esim, so for travelling its easier to go have a physical sim currently

      • Ender2k@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        @SayJess

        I love my eSIM. And, I have a drawer full of “used” SIM cards from previous phones that are just more plastic waste. Good riddance!