https://gizmodo.com/google-s-pixel-8-sim-slot-esim-only-iphone-1850759671
What happened to daring to be different? What happened to having options? What happened to creativity?
this post was submitted on 22 Aug 2023
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You can have a bunch of esims on one phone.
Yeah but your carrier need to support eSim. And that's the issue.
That’s true. With any luck this’ll force carriers to move to esim.
It’s kinda against their interests because it’s easier and cheaper for the user to switch providers. Not a big deal in the us where there’s three or four big ones with less gsm/cdma overlap but in Europe where there’s a thousand and lots of overlap making it easier for a customer to switch providers is big.
While you have a point. I feel like you should have the option with a regular sim too. Maybe they could put their phone number on the eSIM for the common users, and have the regular SIM for people who want it.
What I mean by this is that the majority of users would have eSIM while the users with more technological knowhow could have the regular SIM instead.
If Google could do something like that, I'd be less disappointed.
Youve got it backwards. The more technical user should be on the one that can be easily transferred, has more features and requires a little knowledge to understand and not just say to the carrier “transfer my number”.
The boomers are the ones who need to have a little card with their phone number on it.
I don't think I have it backwards. I have technological knowhow and I'd rather have the physical SIM. I don't want eSIM as my main thing. Especially since I have devices that don't even support eSIM in case my main device breaks or something like that.
It’s not like even the esim happy us carriers won’t provision a phone using a sim. There’s no reason you can’t use an older device with a sim as a backup for a newer device with an esim.
I think (but I need to confirm) that you can have an esim and matching sim at the same time. That was the process for going from sim to esim, they’d make an esim with the same ids as your sim then you make sure the esim is working and chuck the old card. Gotta make sure it can go in reverse though.