Do you have a phone, tablet, or laptop (or, well, any device…) which will only take a physical SIM, but with which you’d like to use eSIM

Using eSIMs with devices that only have a physical SIM slot via a 9eSIM SIM card with Android and Linux

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2025-01-20 12:00:10

Do you have a phone, tablet, or laptop (or, well, any device…) which will only take a physical SIM, but with which you’d like to use eSIMs?

Then this is a blogpost for you, as that’s exactly what this is: a physical SIM, onto which one can provision eSIMs, using software to swap between them.

The first shipment from China got lost but, after a bit of waiting, they posted another one without complaint. That was shipped by a different delivery company, and it arrived in just over a week.

The solution was a frustratingly simple one: the best way to use the supplied smartcard reader is to use the original packaging for the SIM.

This packaging is the right size to slide into the reader while positioning the SIM’s contacts over the contact points on the reader. I will keep that together with the smartcard reader.

When I realised that - rather than trying to slide the popped-out SIM into the right place and keep it there - it Just Worked.