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 ...

One of the originators of the SIM standard has designed a new “nano-SIM” that’s considerably smaller than the micro-SIM it hopes to replace. One of the originators of the SIM standard has designed a ...

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.

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 ...

Apple has been striving to get its new Nano SIM card design approved as the industry standard, while companies like Nokia, RIM, and Motorola have been advocating for an alternative design. The ...

What you see in the image above is the evolution of mobile phone SIM card design over the past four years. The largest in the image, known as the mini-SIM, was used for quite a while as the standard ...

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 ...

T-Mobile customers are quickly jumping ship, turning to rival carriers to bag the iPhone. But on Thursday, the company announced that it will finally begin selling Apple’s immensely popular smartphone ...

So you are looking for the best smartphones with Nano SIM card slots? Well, let’s get into it then. Those of you who are not familiar with SIM cards, I bet you use CDMA phones. SIM (subscriber ...

Being able to swap your SIM card into a different phone is great—until you find out it isn't the right size. If you need to fit your Nano-SIM into a Micro-SIM slot, the Sadapter can help. I recently ...

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4FF stands for 4th Form Factor. A SIM card that is simply physically smaller than a traditional (2FF) SIM card or Micro-SIM (3FF) card. See: SIM The electric contacts and circuitry of a Nano-SIM are ...