When the iPhone 14 series was released last month, Apple made a surprising move, announcing that all models released in the US would cancel support for physical SIM cards and all will use eSIM instead. it will not have a SIM card slot. In addition to hitting US users, this deal also dealt a severe blow to China’s parallel import market.
As the price of the iPhone in the US is relatively low, there is a price difference of more than 1,000 yuan compared to the version released in China, which has attracted many Chinese merchants to introduce the US version of the iPhone for sales. Welcome. Now that parallel traders want to introduce the US version of the iPhone 14, they must first solve the problem of the inability to use physical SIMs. According to Chinese media reports, Shenzhen Huaqiangbei recently successfully hacked, adding a physical SIM card slot to the US version of the iPhone 14 Pro.
Since Apple did not design two sets of motherboards, but did not install the SIM card slot in the US version, Huaqiangbei’s solution was to open a SIM card slot in the middle frame of the iPhone 14 Pro, then solder the card holder to motherboard. Although the physical function of the SIM card has been successfully added to the US version of the iPhone, the whole machine needs to be disassembled and processed.The modification process and cost are too high, so the price is very close to the licensed one. and parallel importers are therefore not profitable.
Sources of data and images:cnbeta
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