The iPhone is going to slash the function again!
As we all know, Apple wants to be environmentally friendly is not a matter of one day or two days. In the past few years, Apple has cut a lot of things in the name of "environmental protection" and "progress". It eliminated the headphone hole on the iPhone 7 series, and turned its head to the first generation of AirPods of up to 1288 yuan. It canceled the standard charging head on the iPhone 12 series, and as a result, the 5W charging head of "Wufu Yi'an" was still sold at a high price of 145 yuan on the official website.
This time, Apple actually extended its claws to the one who decided to communicate on mobile phones... SIM card?
Is the iPhone entering the eSIM era?
Although the iPhone 13 series has only been on sale for less than two or three months, the revelations about the iPhone 14 series have already been flying all over the sky. What interested Guozi the most was the news that the new generation of iPhones was about to cancel the physical SIM card.
There are several versions of the current revelations, and The fruit has sorted out for the fox friends. But they all point to the same result: the "full eSIM" of the iPhone is really coming.
According to the Brazilian website Blog do iPhone, the iPhone 15 Pro listed in 2023 will be the first iPhone to completely remove the physical SIM card and provide eSIM dual card functionality. The iPhone 15 series will have more cross-era changes, such as canceling the Lightning physical data port together, and adding off-screen fingerprint recognition, as well as using Apple's self-developed baseband chip.
Good guys, is the problem of poor iPhone signal, this time finally getting better?
According to MacRumors' revelations, the iPhone may take a faster step this time. Because Apple and U.S. carriers are negotiating to launch an eSIM-only phone in 2022, the iPhone 14 will likely become the first iPhone to completely remove the physical card slot. In the second quarter of next year, Apple will also guide users to activate devices through eSIM.
This wave, ah, is the "future has come", we can use iPhones without physical SIM cards next year?
eSIM, Apple has been laid out for a long time
In fact, Apple wants to implement eSIM, and the fruit is not surprising at all. Because Apple has always been the main force to promote the development of SIM cards.
When everyone is still using Mini SIM cards (that is, the 2G\3G era, everyone often shouts "big card"), Apple has taken the lead in using micro-SIM cards on the iPhone 4. GuoZi still remembers that this directly brought the business of the mobile phone shop, and the fee for cutting a card ranged from 1 to 5 yuan, which was really a good business without profit!
And when everyone was not fully accustomed to the Mini SIM card, Apple once again led the industry, using the Nano-SIM card on the iPhone 5, which is the specification we are using now.
In China, "dual CARD dual standby" has always been just needed, but this time Apple is no longer the "vanguard". After the domestic machine has long realized dual SIM dual standby, Apple only belatedly brought dual SIM dual standby on the 2018 iPhone XS Max and iPhone XR.
Moreover, this is still the "China Special Edition", because only the IPhones of the National Bank of China, the Hong Kong version, and the Macao (Gate) version support physical dual SIM dual standby, while the other iPhones are a physical SIM card + eSIM dual card dual standby.
So, eSIM is nothing new to Apple. After three or four years of development, more and more people in the world have accepted and used eSIM services, and operators have gradually improved the corresponding supporting facilities. Apple plans to implement a full eSIM on the new iPhone, which is a matter of course.
What are the benefits of full eSIM?
Since Apple bets on a full eSIM, what are its irresistible benefits?
Guozi believes that the first of course is to save the space inside the phone. For structural engineers, the value of 1cm may be more precious than the 1m in the north, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen. The SIM card from large to small and finally to "none", the headphone hole is cut off, all in order to save more space inside the phone.
Secondly, mobile phones can be "non-porous". This is a mobile phone development direction recognized by the entire industry: as far as possible to achieve integration, reduce openings, keep the phone intact, and enhance the three defense capabilities of mobile phones. From removing the headphone hole to removing the Home button, the iPhone has been working this path. The next thing to be killed is naturally this "obstructive" SIM card slot.
Finally, Apple has always prided itself on safety and loss prevention. Although the currently lost iPhone even if the physical SIM card is unplugged, the system can still force open WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS and other means to help the owner locate and retrieve the phone, but if the mobile phone has an eSIM that cannot be unplugged and cannot be closed, the owner can have more time and more accurate positioning to retrieve his lost iPhone, and the thief will pay more for it to prevent the iPhone from sending a "distress signal".
Although Apple mobile phones without physical SIM cards can be seen as soon as next year, Guozi is not optimistic about whether the iPhone of the National Bank of China can "go to SIM" in the short term. After all, eSIM is a strange thing for most people, and eSIM support on smart watches is also very general. It is very likely that in the new iPhone series, there will still be a "Chinese special edition".