Smartphone without a SIM card: The iSIM runs on the smartphone chip
Qualcomm, Vodafone and Thales have further developed the eSIM into the iSIM. This means that an extra chip is no longer necessary, but the SIM functions are integrated into the SoC.
In order to save space in the smartphone and to make it unnecessary to swap SIM cards in new devices, manufacturers have been working on methods for storing the customers’ tariff information elsewhere in the device for some time. This is possible with the eSIM, for example. This stands for embedded SIM, i.e. a card permanently installed in the device. This version is already smaller than the usual SIM cards and is not …
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