Originally Posted by
bukzin
Here is a list of esim providers sorted by coverage areas
esimdb.com
Originally Posted by
LIH Prem
you don't need a physical sim slot for an esim, so I'm not sure what you're getting at. I'm sure they could do what you suggest, but I don't see the value.
They want to reduce slots that open and expose the inside of the phone and take up space in the phone, so I would say in the future those hardware sim slots are likely to go away as with the headphone jack. I hope they provide dual esim support when the physical slots eventually go away.
-David
My desire is that the esim capability could be extended to non esim devices. As evidenced by another user here, there are a lot of fairly current phones and tablets that do not have esim capability. If it were a swappable product, the MVNO's around the world who only market esim services would have a much larger target market. Most Android phones that are more than a year old for example do not have esims, and iPhones before the Xr don't either. My sister in law just bought a Samsung 10s, one of their high end products which just launched a few months back, and it doesn't have one.
I've used the Apple Sim a few times to get roaming data and it's a nice option for travel. As I mentioned, it doesn't seem like a huge leap to carry that into an esim version. So apparently Apple sees the versatility of that function enough to offer that product.