News & Reviews:   SIM card

You can now sign up for a Telegram account without having a SIM card. The social media platform announced the feature through an official blog post, but there's a catch.

Apple is reportedly planning to ditch the SIM card slot on its iPhones and instead only provide support for eSIM. In fact, the company may even release an eSIM-only iPhone 14 series model for certain regions this September.

Google is reportedly working on a feature that would allow for devices running Android 13 to support multiple profiles on a single eSIM. This would essentially allow users to connect to more than one carrier with a single eSIM and make SIM cards obsolete.

Senior technical editor for Android developer platform Esper, Mishaal Rahman in a blog post last Thursday alluded to this feature coming to the big Android 13 update. However, no release date timeframe for the update was mentioned.

Today, Maxis just announced a new promotion for the front liners in the healthcare industry. According to their press release, over 86 public and private hospitals across the nation are granted with free access for Hotlink Postpaid 60 plan for three months. Each activated SIM card comes with 10GB data, plus free 10GB for YouTube, and unlimited calls and SMS to all networks.

Facial recognition is considered one of the secure ways to identify a person’s identity. With some of the flagships ditching fingerprint unlock like the Apple's later generation iPhones and Google Pixel 4, the technology that used to be far away from us is becoming more common right now. By using the technology, China has implemented a new law that requires citizens to go through facial recognition scans to get a new SIM card.