{"id":130894,"date":"2025-08-09T05:04:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T05:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/130894\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T05:04:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T05:04:10","slug":"pixel-10-series-might-largely-ditch-physical-sim-cards-rumor-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/130894\/","title":{"rendered":"Pixel 10 series might largely ditch physical SIM cards, rumor says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<img width=\"1600\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1754715849_834_pixel-10-series-wf-leaks-1.jpg\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"  decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>According to a new rumor, Google\u2019s Pixel 10 series might invest more heavily into eSIM, and largely do away with physical SIM cards as a result.<\/p>\n<p>eSIM tech has improved a lot in recent years, especially as Apple\u2019s newest iPhones no longer have support for a physical SIM card in the US. On Android, though, eSIMs have still faced an uphill battle and it <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2022\/09\/09\/android-esim\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">can be a headache<\/a> to use them, though it\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2024\/01\/29\/android-esim-transfer-galaxy-s24\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">constantly improving<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, though, Google is planning to do away with support for physical SIM cards on the Pixel 10 series according to a new rumor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/evleaks\/status\/1953873647631757380\" rel=\"nofollow\">Evan Blass (@evleaks) suggests that <\/a>the Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, and Pixel 10 Pro XL will not support physical SIM cards and instead support two eSIM slots (where prior Pixels only support one). The Pixel 10 Pro Fold, though, would still support a physical SIM card \u2013 that SIM tray is clearly seen in a leaked <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/evleaks\/status\/1953493258358661438\/video\/1\" rel=\"nofollow\">marketing video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\tAdvertisement &#8211; scroll for more content<\/p>\n<p>This is certainly unexpected, and one to take with a grain of salt. <\/p>\n<p>Not only is this post from Blass a bit out of the ordinary for the leaker with an odd \u201ctipster suggests\u201d opening line, but we\u2019ve also seen Pixel 10 leaks that clearly show a SIM tray. Early CAD-based leaks <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2025\/03\/11\/google-pixel-10-cad-render-leak-design\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">clearly showed a SIM tray<\/a> across all devices, while real-life leaks of a prototype device similarly <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2025\/06\/02\/pixel-10-pro-prototype\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">showed a SIM card tray<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-async--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on-async--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-async-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\"  alt=\"Pixel 10 Pro prototype\" data-height=\"732\" data-id=\"674783\" data-link=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/pixel-10-pro-prototype-3-1\/\" data-url=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/06\/Pixel-10-Pro-prototype-3-1.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=732\" data-width=\"732\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Pixel-10-Pro-prototype-3-1.jpg\" data-amp-layout=\"responsive\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-async--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on-async--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-async-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\"  alt=\"\" data-height=\"800\" data-id=\"664763\" data-link=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2025\/03\/11\/google-pixel-10-cad-render-leak-design\/google-pixel-10-cad-3\/\" data-url=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/03\/google-pixel-10-cad-3.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" data-width=\"1600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/google-pixel-10-cad-3.jpg\" data-amp-layout=\"responsive\"\/><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll have to wait and see if this one turns out to be true as, so far, we\u2019ve not seen any more recent leaks. The many images of the Pixel 10 series that have leaked in recent weeks have entirely lacked any view of the top of the phone where we\u2019d see the SIM tray. <\/p>\n<p>In a follow-up tweet, Blass adds that the \u201conly data point so far is US.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But what do you think? Do you mind if Google removes physical SIM support from Pixel 10? Sound off in the comments.<\/p>\n<p>More on Pixel 10:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Follow Ben:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NexusBen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Twitter\/X<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@nexusben\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Threads<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/nexusben.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bluesky<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/nexusben\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Headline updated to reflect mention of US being the only data point.<\/p>\n<p class=\"disclaimer-affiliate\">FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/about\/#affiliate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to a new rumor, Google\u2019s Pixel 10 series might invest more heavily into eSIM, and largely do&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":124584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[611,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-130894","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-mobile","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114997065397670074","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}