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Will the latest iPhone kill off the Sim card?
The iPhone Air will only have an eSIM - will other phone makers also shift away from the familiar - but fiddly - plastic cards?
With smartphones, where Apple leads others often follow - so it launching an iPhone this week without a traditional SIM card is raising questions over the future of a very familiar piece of phone tech. It will only operate with an eSIM - which allows users to switch networks or plans without resorting to a fiddly fork to open a tiny SIM card tray. Analyst Kester Mann, from CCS Insight, told BBC News that Apple's announcement "marks the beginning of the end of the physical SIM card".
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