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Move with the times, interduce eSims
eSIM, please...
eSim would make life so much easier.
Come on smarty, you can do this. One of the top requests I see in the community all the time.
TP113 Why does it make life easier if you use Smarty as your main sim?
I see the benefit of using an Esim when travelling - but as a temporary measure. When back in the |UK (or EU) not sure why it makes a difference to have a physical or Esim in the phone. New phones allow a number of sims to be added (useful for roaming outside EU).
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LuckyRabbit But what is the great advantage to an Esim ? Nobody seems to have addressed this here.
As I mentioned earlier, it is great for quickly adding a sim for travel - no need to go to a shop or wait for sim to be sent if you need to travel suddenly. Other than that, what else?
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Lordvega The status of this Idea has been changed to "Accepted", so it looks like Smarty think it will be a good idea. Problem is, there's no real way of knowing when it will be completed.
I understand, from what I read, that the new iPhone 17 due out in September will be Esim only. Presumably that will apply to all future models too. While not everything is driven by iPhone totally, this may be the reason why they are moving on with it - before the end of September?!?!
Absolutely, 3 already has this as does ID so as shame it's not available hopefully we see some developments this year
MSFFor some it's a Personal preference which isn't a great reason but definitely one that people care about.
Apart from that though one I can think of is better security. If your device is stolen a physical sim can be removed and stop the device from being tracked or found an esim is integrated into the device so cannot be removed.
Another reason is physical Sims can degrade or become damaged over time any issues regarding this is negated by ESims.
Both of these particularly the second one are niche but are reasons people would prefer Esim technology to physical Sims, there's also the possibility that down the line apple and other manufacturers will do awa with the Sim slot like they did with the headphone jack, apples already done this in America so not impossible for this to spread.
Personally I'd love for them to have ESims but it's not a dealbreaker for me with Smarty. It's not really a need but definitely a nice to have at least in my case.
