Apple adopted eSIM for the primary time with the iPhone XS/XR sequence, then with final 12 months’s iPhone 14 fashions it dropped the standard SIM slot altogether and went eSIM-only on telephones offered within the US market. The brand new iPhone 15 fashions observe on the identical path, once more solely within the US.
There are a complete of 4 variants. The US fashions assist twin eSIMs and are the one ones with mmWave. One other model is offered in the remainder of North America, Canada and Mexico, in addition to in Japan. This one is much like the worldwide model in that it has one bodily nano-SIM slot and and one eSIM (twin eSIM operation remains to be an choice, although).
US iPhone 15s
Canadian iPhone 15s
European iPhone 15s
Chinese language iPhone 15s
Then there’s the Chinese language mannequin (additionally offered in Hong Kong and Macao), which is the one one with out an eSIM – it has a twin nano-SIM tray as a substitute. eSIMs require service assist and are extra frequent (and simpler to make use of) in some areas than others.
That is seemingly what’s preserving Apple from going all-in on eSIM (and sooner or later iSIM, most likely). For now, all iPhones are constructed the identical, those and not using a SIM tray simply have wasted house.
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