OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 15 hours agoArticle: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regretarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square105fedilinkarrow-up1286arrow-down116
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minus-squareozymandias117@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 hours agoFrom the phone manufacturer, it’s fewer traces and less mechanical design work. From the carrier side, it requires you to have their spyware installed to register the Sim From a user perspective, someone can’t just steal your Sim and put it in another phone
minus-squareEat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 hours agoExcept that’s not true, I neither need to install any apps nor give my data to my service provider.
minus-squareozymandias117@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 hours agoThen you are using a feature phone, or a standard Android/iOS device with their tools preinstalled If you try to use it with a free operating system, it’s not possible. Here are the instructions for installing the bridge code on Graphene: https://grapheneos.org/usage#esim-support
minus-squareEat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·8 hours agoI use eSIMs on grapheneOS
From the phone manufacturer, it’s fewer traces and less mechanical design work.
From the carrier side, it requires you to have their spyware installed to register the Sim
From a user perspective, someone can’t just steal your Sim and put it in another phone
Except that’s not true, I neither need to install any apps nor give my data to my service provider.
Then you are using a feature phone, or a standard Android/iOS device with their tools preinstalled
If you try to use it with a free operating system, it’s not possible.
Here are the instructions for installing the bridge code on Graphene: https://grapheneos.org/usage#esim-support
I use eSIMs on grapheneOS