Just keep in mind that your mileage in successfully using your eSIM. Google, itself also a manufacturer/OS maintainer, would just be catching up. Both phones come with a physical nano-SIM card slot, as well as support for eSIM. In serving the latter roles, Apple has already moved the iPhone 14 series in the United States to eSIM only and may be looking to do so for iPhone 15 devices elsewhere, including the United Kingdom. But it takes every player up and down the component stack from chipset designers like Qualcomm to phone manufacturers and operating system maintainers to enable this shift. Such a move would cut down on precious hardware space needed to store subscriber information and increase user security along the way, too. The mobile industry has been paving the way for a shift to eSIM (and, eventually, to integrated SIMs or iSIMs) for a while. Both the physical SIM card slot and eSIM. Does Google have a strong motivation for doing away with physical SIMs on its phones? Rahman recalls one of the company's announcements during MWC 2023 that Android would be able to transfer subscriber information to a device's eSIM slot without the need for a physical SIM card by year's end. Yes, as mentioned in our Pixel 7a review, the device has dual-SIM support but only comes with one physical SIM card slot. Google says that eSIM features are carrier dependent, so check with your cellular service provider if youre having issues with the setup process.
