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Re:iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro by Nextgrid on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @02:57PM (#24768899)
Does the Chinese dual-sim iPhone have any restrictions or downsides compared to a US or EU model? I might consider it as my next step if I can let go of the iPhone 8 and its fingerprint sensor.
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Re:iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro by ValentineC on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @03:09PM (#24769044)
I just looked through my iPhone's emoji keyboard and it doesn't have the Taiwan flag: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-08/apple-pul...

If I used it with any regularity, I could probably work around it with a keyboard shortcut.

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Re:iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro by Nextgrid on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @03:11PM (#24769066)
Which region are you in and which region is your system set to? I always thought things like this were determined by which region you select when you set up the phone (or something similar like detected via GPS/network instead of being bound to the hardware itself).
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Re:iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro by ValentineC on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @03:20PM (#24769179)
Singapore, with Singapore SIM cards.

I have nothing that links to Hong Kong or China, so it's probably implemented by identifying the different phone model number of the dual SIM iPhone.

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