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Re:Regarding the eSIM-only iPhone 14 models in the U.S. by gst on Saturday September 10, 2022 @01:31AM (#32788073)
> I don't know engineering wise why China model phones can't ship with both dual physical slots and support any combo of two physical/eSIM. There doesn't appear to be any obvious technical limitation.

As far as I know Chinese carriers don't support eSIMs for smartphones yet. I'm not sure if Apple would have been able to legally ship eSIM support in China, but even if they would be able to do that it would be an additional cost for a feature that nearly none of their customers there would use.

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Re:Regarding the eSIM-only iPhone 14 models in the U.S. by DivineBicycle on Saturday September 10, 2022 @01:57AM (#32788208)
I don't believe they do as when I asked the people in the China Univom shop them had no idea what I was talking about.
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Re:Regarding the eSIM-only iPhone 14 models in the U.S. by shalmanese on Saturday September 10, 2022 @11:56PM (#32796695)
According to Apple, the following carriers in Greater China support eSIM while all iPhones sold there don't support eSIM:

Hong Kong

1O1O

3

csl

China Mobile Hong Kong

SmarTone

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Taiwan

APT

Chunghwa Telecom

Far EasTone

Taiwan Mobile

Taiwan Star

Truphone

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Macao

CTM

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