With little fight from the manufacturers to see who produces the thinnest smartphone or battery with higher capacity, it is necessary to reduce the size of some components. One is the SIM card, the one chip that identifies your phone on a network and stores some data, such as your address book. When the micro-SIM was adopted, many had to do workarounds to make a normal SIM fit the iPhone or iPhone. And the guides hacks should return.
The ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute) standards body that controls the phone in Europe, is examining proposals for the new standard 4FF - better known as nano-SIM. Apple, Nokia and RIM had their ideas and fight for your projects become standards. A technology used in many smartphones can mean good money in royalties and control the market, hence the interest.
The nano-SIM by Apple.
Apple's proposal is the simplest and might allow for backward compatibility with standard micro-SIM and SIM - SIM-nano apple is basically a micro-SIM without the excess plastic around the edges. The controversy revolves around the need for a tray external to the chip to be inserted and removed without difficulty, then ultimately gain space would be zero. Furthermore, as a measure has practically equal to the micro-SIM, SIM-nano could also be stuck to a user placed the chip in iPhone 4S, for example. It does not seem very smart.
Nokia and RIM had the most innovative ideas: the nano-SIM of the Finnish company is the smallest of all, measuring 10 mm x 8 mm and having a characteristic shape of SD cards, with a triangular cut on one end and contacts in the form of strips. Considering the influence of Nokia in Europe, it is likely that their standard is chosen, but only know the final answer after the vote that takes place next week.
What we know so far is: if the standard Apple is not the widely adopted, not good to cut your chip common to make it fit a new smartphone or tablet. You will not get.
The ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute) standards body that controls the phone in Europe, is examining proposals for the new standard 4FF - better known as nano-SIM. Apple, Nokia and RIM had their ideas and fight for your projects become standards. A technology used in many smartphones can mean good money in royalties and control the market, hence the interest.
The nano-SIM by Apple.
Apple's proposal is the simplest and might allow for backward compatibility with standard micro-SIM and SIM - SIM-nano apple is basically a micro-SIM without the excess plastic around the edges. The controversy revolves around the need for a tray external to the chip to be inserted and removed without difficulty, then ultimately gain space would be zero. Furthermore, as a measure has practically equal to the micro-SIM, SIM-nano could also be stuck to a user placed the chip in iPhone 4S, for example. It does not seem very smart.
Nokia and RIM had the most innovative ideas: the nano-SIM of the Finnish company is the smallest of all, measuring 10 mm x 8 mm and having a characteristic shape of SD cards, with a triangular cut on one end and contacts in the form of strips. Considering the influence of Nokia in Europe, it is likely that their standard is chosen, but only know the final answer after the vote that takes place next week.
What we know so far is: if the standard Apple is not the widely adopted, not good to cut your chip common to make it fit a new smartphone or tablet. You will not get.
