eSim is here to stay with Google’s move to adopt the same from Android 13. Since the early 1980s, the SIM card has served as a communications device and it has gained wider use, but this day eSIMs are becoming increasingly popular, and Google wants users to migrate to using new improvised SIMs. As a result, Google is testing a new feature in Android 13 Developer to help users avoid using traditional SIM card slots.
Today, we are all familiar with Subscribers Identity Module cards, and many of us have one of our own. However, embedded SIMs were released in 2020, and most of us do not use them since eSIMs have several limitations, such as the ability to only utilize one SIM profile at a time.
Breaking the eSIM Limitation
According to the most recent rev Disclosure from Esper’s Mishaal Rahman, Google is working on implementing a feature known as Multiple Enabled Profiles (MEP) in Android 13 that would enable users to have multiple SIM profiles in a single eSIM.
Google teams were able to go around these restrictions by creating “several activated accounts,” as they put it. It will be possible to activate multiple SIM profiles on a single eSIM as a result of the varied profiles available. It will be able to connect to a variety of different packages provided by various telecommunications companies using a single integrated card, to put it another way.
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It should be noted that Apple currently permits the use of two eSIMs for two or more cell plans on the iPhone 13. As a result of these circumstances, it is speculated that Apple intends to completely phase out the SIM drawer in the next years. With the arrival of this capability to Android 13, it seems that the future of regular SIM cards is dwindling in the distance.
When Will Andriod 13 be launched?
In 2020, Google received a patent for the technique known as Multiple Enabled Profiles. In addition, Google has tested MEP support on Pixel hardware and has provided new APIs to handle eSIM profiles in Android 13. According to the report, they have been testing and preparing this functionality for quite some time.
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To replace SIM cards with electronic SIM cards in the future may out to be a great advancement. This functionality will be included in Android version 13. Unfortunately, there is no official release date for Android 13, although it is expected to be released later this year.
What to know about the First SIM Card
The first sim card was invented and manufactured in Munich, by smart-card maker Giesecke and Devrient in 1991. It revolutionized the industry. At launch, two versions of the sim were introduced – one the size of a credit card and one mini version.
There have been several revisions and modifications, each one reducing the size of the original. As the GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) network has evolved, so has this development.