It's gonna house a rocket engine and perform a SpaceX style landing if you drop it. US iPhones are now drop proof (except you need to refill the rocket engine after every fall).
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iPhone 14 Pro Max Teardown Provides Closer Look at Unused SIM Tray Area on U.S. Model and More
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Not sure it adds any real friction. In fact, eSIM made switching easier for me. I got new service setup for the second “slot” and once I confirmed everything was good, I opened a port request with the old carrier which automatically terminated service with them.
This is phase one, guessing it would have been too much work to have a completely different inside for the US phone this year.
Every iPhone 14 has the satellite SOS feature, except for Chinese market versions (including Hong Kong and Macau).
Use Emergency SOS via satellite on your iPhone - Apple Support
With iPhone 14 or later, you can use Emergency SOS via satellite to text emergency services when you're off the grid with no cellular and Wi-Fi coverage.
I believe that we will see that a physical SIM card acted as a hardware key. The eSIM will reduce security and enable more attacks which require taking control of someone's number to receive factor 2 codes for password resets to email and banks. Removing the carrier chip enables a lot of circumvention.
They don’t have to produce and ship the SIMs anymore. There really isn’t a downside for the carrier’s. Once everyone supports them we’ll wonder why we ever had them in the first place. People really don’t like change. 🤷🏼♂️
Yeah, it’s stupid for the plastic spacer to be included instead of extra battery capacity but it really is a good thing in the long run to force carriers to support something that’s been out for years now. I’ve been using an eSIM on a US MVNO for over a year now and never had an issue. It’s only going to be a possible issue for those US travelers traveling to places that don’t support them yet. Everyone else has SIM models since their carriers don’t support them yet.
Apple don’t think much about the world outside their headquarters… and their behavior shows a lack of even using their own products much, otherwise executives would run into all the bugs and bad design choices.
eSIM does not reduce security. According to GSMA (who invented the SIM card by the way):
And what’s going to force Apple to actually fix all the bugs in their software? Because right now, they just push a new product out the door and people still buy them, regardless of how bad Apple’s software gets every year, due to the Wall Street pathology of perpetual profit increases via yearly new hardware.
Doesn't work like that. If you had super sensitivity to be able to pick up the router that's all fine and dandy, but the router would have to be able to pick you up. If you have that directional and high gain an antenna you've be very limited how much power you could transmit to keep it meeting all the FCC / EU / ISED / etc power limits for that band, else you turning it sideways would effectively be jamming / interfering devices across a far larger area than standard WiFi and hence wouldn't be allowed.I'm surprised there's not a special antenna for the satellite, that would be nice if I could use directional Wi-Fi to reach distant connectivity.
On the right side below the side button you can see there's a slug on the metal where the sim tray goes. Ugh they should've just put the sim tray in or micro sd or usb 4 slot.
The signal from the satellite is small but it's also pretty sensitive, and those satellite bands will also have strict, but different limits on transmit power as basically all stuff has to transmit responsibly within strict rules. Else everyone would just transmit as much power as possible and everyone would be screwed because the RF spectrum would be a mess in a race to the bottom as everyone tried to go higher and higher powers whilst jamming massive areas.
Everyones wifi network ideally only covers an area similar to their house and maybe a few neighbours, else if it covered your town you'd never get any actual data throughput if hundreds of people were trying to share the limited available channels.
Well that's up to Apple to fix their bugs. Which they usually do. But if you don't like that there are bugs you're welcome to move to Android where there are no bugs.
It mentions security about twelve times, but how is it not vulnerable to software attacks like everything else that’s software?
I was considering upgrading my 13 Pro for a 14 since with a trade-in it's not that expensive. But I very frequently travel to countries where e-sim is not yet a realistic option so I am off the Apple upgrade train until that changes.
But hey at least they replaced a feature many people consider crucial with a useless chunk of plastic?
Profile information is in the embedded chip. You would have to attack the embedded chip which requires firmware-level access. Very difficult to do unless you can desoldier the processor and access the chip directly, which needs physical access. Which is part of the problem with the traditional SIM which is people using a SIM without a PIN set so if your phone is stolen and you didn't set a PIN they get access to your phone line, eSIM completely blocks that.