{"id":266078,"date":"2010-02-02T13:26:33","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T18:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5462472"},"modified":"2010-02-02T13:26:33","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T18:26:33","slug":"micro-sim-cards-just-like-a-sim-card-but-a-lil-smaller-micro-sim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/266078","title":{"rendered":"Micro SIM Cards: Just Like a SIM Card, But a Lil’ Smaller [Micro Sim]"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>One of the new bits of iPad viscera announced by Steve Jobs, besides the A4 chip, is that it’s using a micro-SIM card for its 3G powers. What, pray tell, is a micro-SIM card?<\/p>\n

<\/a>It’s the next generation of SIM card<\/a>—3FF or third form factor—which is physically smaller, with less blubber around the shiny gold contact area, as you’ll notice in this helpful picture from Wikipedia<\/a>. The contact area, where the technobloop happens, is the same size, so it’s backward-compatible with a physical adapter. But it fits in more stuff! Like a bigger internal phonebook that’ll has room for emails, and a new authentication scheme that fights carrier spoofing.<\/p>\n

Because it’s the same size and stuff electrically, there’s a chance you’ll be able to shave down regular old SIM cards—so they’ll physically fit in the slot—and use them in a micro SIM slot. Though we’ll see how well that works when we get our hands on some stuff—like an iPad—to play with. [PC Mag<\/a>, Engadget<\/a>]<\/p>\n



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