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iPhone 17 Teardowns Confirm SIM and eSIM-Only Battery Capacities
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Being a UK citizen I've only used an eSIM since it was first available on the iPhone, so around 7 years, not to mention every carrier here now supports eSIM so it really pisses me off that I'm forced to by a SIM tray version with 5% less battery life when I haven't used that slot in years. I want the extra battery life, not a waste of space SIM slot, really frustrating.
The innovation is too much for me, they're finally upgraded from plastic LEGO block spacers to actual battery capacity? I'd still rather have a sim tho. Because many countries I travel to are not esim heavy.
they had a reason to be mad though, there was literally a plastic block where the sim slot should have been. I still regret trading in my 13P cause I should have held on to it.
I wonder what the original maximum capacity will be on the PM batteries. Apple only shows the minimum , the actual can be a couple of percent higher.
This is unlike Samsung and every other phone where they show the nominal battery and the ‘typical’ battery but always say the typical battery size in their literature of the phone and not the nominal. For instance, the nominal battery of the S25 Ultra is 4855 mAh and typical is 5000, but they always say it’s 5000.
This is unlike Samsung and every other phone where they show the nominal battery and the ‘typical’ battery but always say the typical battery size in their literature of the phone and not the nominal. For instance, the nominal battery of the S25 Ultra is 4855 mAh and typical is 5000, but they always say it’s 5000.
No, this won't happen - you'll get always iPhones with SIM slot
The bigger advantage of SIM slot you'll get in holidays eg in Thailand - you buy there a SIM eg AIS and get cheap data volume for photography etc - easy with SIM change (your homeland SIM you give to an elder Phone and use with WLAN telephoning)
Happy if that will be the case. But fear just like the Air, the future iPhone Fold might lack a SIM slot. Eagerly waiting for a fold from Apple.
Right here dude!
I'm an American who occasionally goes off to places with no eSIM support. Less than 2 years ago I went to the Cook Islands in the South Pacific and my iPhone 14 Pro Max absolutely would not work with their Vodafone eSIM.
If I hadn't brought my iPhone SE 2020 for backup (with a physical SIM tray) I would've been without Internet for 2 ½ weeks. The problem is that the iPhone SE is tiny and it has absolutely dreadful battery life - drains in less than a day. I can put it into Airplane Mode and lower the brightness all the way and it still drains out. I should have the right to buy a regular-size iPhone with a physical SIM tray.
People think this never happens but it does. I would 100% give up a tiny bit of battery life for a physical SIM slot and an eSIM. The eSIM only model is just missing a feature in my view.
Speaking of which, Apple may not offer all support options for an iPhone bought outside of usual country of residence. So yeah, it is not a good idea to get an iPhone from another country unless support options are present and carrier support is present, at a bare minimum.
especially the models with physical SIM tray still supports eSIM (except China's model) so it's not like having the slot precludes the use of eSIMs