In case you hadn’t noticed, Apple has declared war on the SIM card. Or at least, it escalated the data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomsguide.com/news/iphone-14-kills-the-sim-card-tray-what-is-esim” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomsguide.com/news/iphone-14-kills-the-sim-card-tray-what-is-esim”> war that technically began with the release of data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomsguide.com/reviews/iphone-14″ data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomsguide.com/reviews/iphone-14″>iPhone 14 in 2022, when those models launched as eSIM-only phones in the U.S.
Not only has Apple expanded the reach of eSIM-only iPhones, it’s also given them an advantage by adding a little more battery capacity to eSIM-based iPhone 17 models.
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Apple isn’t alone in this — data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomsguide.com/phones/google-pixel-phones/several-users-report-getting-a-pixel-10-phone-with-a-physical-sim-tray-when-replacing-damaged-models-heres-what-we-know” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomsguide.com/phones/google-pixel-phones/several-users-report-getting-a-pixel-10-phone-with-a-physical-sim-tray-when-replacing-damaged-models-heres-what-we-know”>Google removed the SIM tray from data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomsguide.com/phones/google-pixel-phones/google-pixel-10-review” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomsguide.com/phones/google-pixel-phones/google-pixel-10-review”>Pixel 10 series phones in the U.S. And that makes it…
