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The SIM cards that fit into those tiny slots in your cell phone and tell your cellular network to whom your calls are to be charged come in four different sizes. With the only real difference between ...

I know it might seem like a strange request, but the current carriers have been giving out terrible quality SIM card adapters. They fall apart after a couple of insertion/removal cycles. And due to ...

Conflict is brewing in the mobile world over the adoption of a new, smaller standard for the SIM card — the chip in each GSM phone that dictates which network you connect to and your cellphone number.

You’ve just bought yourself an iPhone – welcome to the club! However, while you thought you’d just be able to pop your existing SIM card into your iPhone, you might be wrong. That’s dependant on not ...

SIM card format developer Giesecke & Devrient is proposing new specifications for a new SIM format called the nano-SIM, which will be 30 percent smaller than today’s micro-SIM and 60 percent smaller ...

We’ve shown you how to turn a regular SIM into a Micro SIM, but what if you want to do things the other way around? Here’s how to turn a Micro SIM into a regular ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The Verge has obtained detailed information on the so-called “nano-SIM” proposals from Apple, Nokia, and RIM. The ...

Just in case a micro-SIM card is too bulky for you, Germany’s Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) has announced a nano-SIM card, which is about 30% smaller than the micro-SIM and 60% smaller than a SIM card.

3FF stands for 3rd Form Factor. A SIM card that is physically smaller than a traditional (2FF) SIM, but larger than a nano-SIM (4FF). See: SIM The electric contacts and circuitry of a micro-SIM are ...