Sims
its clear that the way forward should be a device that accepts both styles of hard and soft sims then when all the other manufacturers adopt the soft sim technology then they can lose the hard sim slot,
this has been happening for years, I suppose you could argue all computers should have floppy disk drives so if the usb slot breaks you can still put a disk in and use the data on a really old computer lol
So surely the idea would be oh my phone has just been stolen (deactivate the entire device) oh hello new device configure it with the settings and away it goes, no waiting around for the network to post out a replacement SIM card that takes a few days to arrive