Samsung Gear S2 classic 3G is first device with eSIM - a virtual, remotely-activated SIM

18 February, 2016
eSIMs will be for secondary devices first - smartwatches and tablets, but are coming to smartphones too.

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  • 18 Feb 2016

Of course Apple wasn't included. They'll make exactly the same thing, call it iSIM and brag about it till the end of days on how revolutionary it is...

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    • Gibby
    • Ixj
    • 18 Feb 2016

    Sounds like a good idea to me.
    Don't want to be faffing around with SIM cards / miniture hardware in such small devices.
    Of course apple will claim to have invented this after the fact -sue everyone!

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      • nYV
      • 18 Feb 2016

      So they skipped the step of making a physical universal reusable sim card and went straight to making a built in one. i guess it's a good idea but i still would like to keep the option of removable sim cards. at least for now so we can evaluate the pros and cons.

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        • Anonymous
        • NmZ
        • 18 Feb 2016

        Apples standard is called the Apple SIM, non removable of course, wonder it hasn't seen the light of day yet.

          I thought those smart appliances used WiFi instead of having a sim card plugged into each and every one and eating away 100 times more money per megabyte compared to wired internet connections...

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