How to use eSIM with any Android phone?

This blog post will cover how to add an eSIM functionality on virtually any Android phone in the market, even if it didn't ship with an eSIM chip out of the box!

iPhone is the eSIM flag-bearer...

Since the introduction of iPhone XS in fall 2018, all new iPhone models* are coming with built-in eSIM capability. Sooner or later, all iPhone users will have access to eSIM technology as they upgrade their handsets.

What Android devices support eSIM out of the box?

There is of course Google Pixel, which has adopted eSIM early on and is consistently supporting eSIM with every new phone model they launch.

Samsung offers eSIM, too, but only on their flagship models. There are a few models from Motorola, Oppo, and several other manufacturers, but still eSIM capable Android devices remain far and between.

Enter the eSIM adapter card

Some companies have taken on the challenge of bringing eSIM to the billions of Android users whose phones don't have a built-in eSIM chip.

Their solution is clever: an eSIM chip in a traditional SIM card format. You buy an eSIM adapter card, put it in one of the SIM slots in your Android phone, install the card maker's companion app from the Play Store - and you are good to go.

With an eSIM adapter card, almost any Android phone can use eSIM just as if it supported eSIM natively.

Before you buy one, check that the card works with your phone model. And once your phone is eSIM-ready, there is plenty of eSIM choice on MobiMatter, the best travel eSIM store with amazing eSIM packages.

* Except some iPhones models sold in Greater China markets, which do not support eSIM.