Huawei’s updated Watch 2 uses eSIM technology
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Last week, Huawei introduced a revised version of the Huawei Watch 2 with one notable change to last year’s model: it’s adopting eSIM, a still budding technology that takes up less space than regular SIM cards. So far, we know that it can be purchased in China through e-commerce platform Vmall but quite possibly not anywhere else in the world, as GSMArena spotted.
The new Huawei Watch 2 seems to be identical to last year’s watch, aside from the addition of an eSIM to replace nanoSIM support, which is a significant change. With eSIM, which replaces the plastic SIM card with a smaller, electronic one, the watch can share the same phone number as your mobile device, making it more convenient. Given that the eSIM is much smaller than...