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Apple works out users want duel Sim's

by on19 December 2016


Tries to patent a dual-sim iPhone

Fruity tax-dodging cargo cult Apple has finally worked out that everyone is using dual sim smartphones and is frantically trying to claim it invented the idea.

Apple registered a patent for a dual SIM technology and obviously since it can’t claim to have invented the idea, which has been popular for ages, it has come up with the idea of putting another antenna for the second Sim.

The patent describes how the new Apple feature enables the use of two SIM cards in a mobile device and how the device determines SIM priority. If a SIM card is being actively used for a phone call in any given moment, that card is given priority over the second SIM that also actively uses data.

We are not sure how a second antenna would improve things particularly if Apple’s software is giving one Sim priority over the other one.

Dual SIM technology is common in Android and is extremely popular in China. Chinese people like the idea of using the same phone for work and play and Apple looks decidedly backward in being unable to supply one. In Italy dual sims are known as the “Berlusconi phones” because you can give your wife one number and your mistress the other.

The Tame Apple press has done its best to play down the fact that Apple has been slow to adopt dual sims.  One magazine even pointed out that the iPhone 7 battery is one of the least powerful smartphone batteries in the industry and a second sim would drain it in seconds. Yeah that is a great sales point.

It is true that the iPhone has never crossed the 3,000 mAh mark with its batteries, previous generations and models included. The current iPhone 7 has a piss poor 1,960 mAh battery capacity and it drains considerably fast compared to rivals Samsung Galaxy S7 and Google Pixel.

Not that Apple fanboys would know that.  One of the advantages of being locked in is that you don’t know how good life is outside the walled garden.

Last modified on 19 December 2016
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