At present, the mobile phones sold in the market are still mainly used with physical SIM cards. According to the demand, an additional 1-2 sets of physical SIM card slots will be added, or a set of eSIM design will be added to allow users to correspond to multiple sets of door numbers. It will also take up some of the internal space of the phone. According to Google’s design, it is expected that all mobile phones will be able to use the telecom door number service through eSIM, allowing users to switch between different telecom door number service plans more easily.
Mishaal Rahman, senior technical editor of Esper, an Android development and maintenance platform, pointed out that the Android open source project and developer website both refer to the description of Multiple Enabled Profiles (MEP, Multiple Enabled Profiles), which may be added in Android 13 to allow a single group of eSIMs to be used. At the same time, it corresponds to the use mode of multiple groups of electrical door numbers.
According to Mishaal Rahman, this design will allow mobile phones to use two sets of telecom door numbers at the same time through a single set of eSIM, which means that the mobile phone design will remove the traditional physical SIM card slot, thereby reducing more internal space and even You can add extra battery capacity, or set up a micro SD memory card installation space.
At present, the mobile phones sold in the market are still mainly used with physical SIM cards. According to the demand, an additional 1-2 sets of physical SIM card slots will be added, or a set of eSIM design will be added to allow users to correspond to multiple sets of door numbers. It will also take up some of the internal space of the phone. According to Google’s design, it is expected that all mobile phones will be able to use the telecom door number service through eSIM, allowing users to switch between different telecom door number service plans more easily.
According to the description, the design patent proposed by Google for multiple enabling profiles was approved in 2020, and it may not only be applied to Android 13, but may also be applied to connected devices with other operating systems, such as Windows or iOS devices.
However, at present, Google has not further explained this design, and although Google has equipped the eSIM design in the Pixel series mobile phones, it has not adopted a similar design.