Why Android smartphones are not ready to completely abandon physical SIM cards

In 2022, Apple surprised the public again by releasing the iPhone 14 in the US without physical SIM cards. This encouraged our

colleagues from Huawei Central to speculate on how ready Android smartphones are for such a breakthrough.

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It turned out that almost all budget models and somemid-budget ones do not support eSIM technology. In this case, even if the device can work exclusively with a virtual SIM-card, then a new problem arises.

The thing is that reconfiguring the cellulartariff in the event of a smartphone change is possible only with a personal appeal to the telecom operator. The process of transferring an eSIM from one smartphone to another is only for the Google Pixel line and Samsung phones. And even then, only those connected to the T-Mobile connection.