Re:Android now lets you transfer eSIMs between your phones
by masklinn on Saturday January 27, 2024 @05:13AM
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> Isn't the practical thing that esim transfers end up just being "go to your carrier's website and do a thing again"?
My carrier straight up doesn't support esim transfer as in moving the esim from one phone to an other, you have to renew / order a new one (as if you'd lost a physical sim basically).
It does not take too long once you find out you have to do that, and hunt down how to do it, but it's stressful, annoying, and dumb.
I feel like people with these comments don't realise that in many mobile markets carriers that do lockin don't do it via SIM cards, they do it via IMEI number locks on the phone. So even if you have a physical SIM card, you put it in another phone and it just doesn't work.