What’s an eSIM?
What’s an eSIM?
An eSIM is a tiny chip that’s already installed in your device. During set up, you load your SIM profile onto it by connecting to the internet.
• You don’t need to use a physical SIM
Vodafone Albania now supports eSIMs in smartphones for all the customers that will request it, a convenient new technology supported only by Vodafone Albania in the country.
eSIMs aren’t just the next generation of SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) card technology, they do away with the need for a physical card entirely.
SIM cards contain unique identifying information enabling a mobile phone or other device to connect securely to a mobile network. With eSIMs, that data is contained in a few lines of code which is stored on a dedicated chip inside your phone rather than on a removable card.
Using Vodafone’s QR code to load your eSIM on to your phone, you can be online in just a few minutes without the need of getting and inserting a physical SIM card module in your phone.
As most of the smartphones that currently support eSIMs also retain their physical SIM card slots, eSIMs can complement physical SIM cards in a number of ways. For example, you could have both your personal and work mobile numbers on a single device, with one of those lines provided seamlessly by eSIM.
As eSIMs are a relatively new technology, only certain devices have the hardware necessary to use it. Vodafone Albania supports eSIMs in the Apple iPhone XS or newer, the Google Pixel 3 or newer, as well as in certain Samsung Galaxy phones and iPads.
Please refer to the list below:
Android
Apple:
iPhone
An eSIM is a tiny chip that’s already installed in your device. During set up, you load your SIM profile onto it by connecting to the internet.
• You don’t need to use a physical SIM
Vodafone Albania now supports eSIMs in smartphones for all the customers that will request it, a convenient new technology supported only by Vodafone Albania in the country.
eSIMs aren’t just the next generation of SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) card technology, they do away with the need for a physical card entirely.
SIM cards contain unique identifying information enabling a mobile phone or other device to connect securely to a mobile network. With eSIMs, that data is contained in a few lines of code which is stored on a dedicated chip inside your phone rather than on a removable card.
Using Vodafone’s QR code to load your eSIM on to your phone, you can be online in just a few minutes without the need of getting and inserting a physical SIM card module in your phone.
As most of the smartphones that currently support eSIMs also retain their physical SIM card slots, eSIMs can complement physical SIM cards in a number of ways. For example, you could have both your personal and work mobile numbers on a single device, with one of those lines provided seamlessly by eSIM.
As eSIMs are a relatively new technology, only certain devices have the hardware necessary to use it. Vodafone Albania supports eSIMs in the Apple iPhone XS or newer, the Google Pixel 3 or newer, as well as in certain Samsung Galaxy phones and iPads.
Please refer to the list below:
Android
- Samsung
- Samsung
- Z Flip
- Galaxy S20 Ultra
- Galaxy S20 Plus
- Galaxy S20
- Pixel 3
- Pixel 3 XL
- Pixel 3a
- Pixel 3a XL
- Pixel 4
- Pixel 4 XL
Apple:
iPhone
- iPhone 12
- iPhone 12 Mini
- iPhone 12 Pro
- iPhone 12 Pro Max
- iPhone SE 2020
- iPhone 11
- iPhone 11 Pro
- iPhone 11 Pro Max
- iPhone XR
- iPhone XS
- iPhone XS Max
- iPad Air (4th generation)
- iPad Pro 11 inch (2nd generation)
- iPad Pro 12.9 inch (4th generation)
- iPad Pro 11 inch (1st generation)
- iPad Pro 12.9 inch (3rd generation)
- iPad Air (3rd generation)
- iPad (7th generation)
- iPad mini (5th generation)