Forum Discussion
Esim
Past time SMARTY offer eSIMs.
I use eSIMs extensively at home and abroad, on both foreign networks and with services like Airalo.
What is the big deal with them, why are you so keen to use them ? Both physical and eSIMs work exactly the same, there are “no bonus features” that eSIM has over physical sims.
How about so us iPhone users can have two sims on our phones! Because no one single provider, especially Three, is capable of providing a service all over the country. The iPhone only has one physical sim slot, but allows 5 I think esims. It’s modern progression too. I’m actually scrapping my S arty SIM and moving to ID Mobile as they now use eSIM and Three’s network. When Smarty move into modern times I’ll come back over.
I have a SMARTY SIM installed on my iPhone 14 PRO and a Vodafone eSIM.
An iPhone can hold a maximum of eight eSIM's although only one eSIM can be active when using a physical SIM too. If you don't have a physical SIM inserted in your iPhone, then you can only have two eSIM's active at any one time.
It's not about bonus features, it's because some devices either don't support physical SIMs at all or only support one physical SIM and one eSIM.
That’s not true, certainly in the UK, where all devices available still use physical SIM cards.
In the USA, iPhones from the 14 series do not have physical SIM card slots, being eSIM only, but again, that’s in the USA, not here in the UK…
