When the iPhone 14 series was released last month, Apple made a surprising move, announcing that all models sold in the United States would cancel the support for physical SIM cards, and all use eSIM instead. The iPhone 14 series sold in the United States will not have a SIM card slot. In addition to affecting U.S. users, this arrangement has also dealt a huge blow to the parallel import market in China.
Because the price of the iPhone in the United States is relatively low, there is a price difference of more than 1,000 yuan compared with the version released in China, which has attracted many Chinese merchants to introduce the US version of the iPhone for sales. Consumers welcome. Now that parallel traders want to introduce the US version of the iPhone 14, they must first solve the problem of inability to use physical SIM cards. According to Chinese media reports, Shenzhen Huaqiangbei has recently successfully cracked, 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, and then solder the card holder to the motherboard. Although the physical SIM card function has been successfully added to the US version of the iPhone, the entire machine needs to be disassembled and processed. The modification process and cost are too high, making the price very close to the licensed one, and parallel importers are therefore unprofitable.
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