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Why Qualcomm taking away your SIM card might be a bad idea

Posted on March 3, 2023August 27, 2023 By bot

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Qualcomm revealed this week during MWC 2023 that it will be adding the “world’s first commercially deployable iSIM” (Integrated SIM) to its Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Mobile Platform.In other words, Android phones with this chipset will be ditching swappable SIM cards, opting for a hardware solution instead. Qualcomm accomplished this (opens in new tab) thanks to some help from French electronics company Thales Group, a name that most people probably won’t recognize but may be
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