{"id":332177,"date":"2010-02-17T12:38:38","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T17:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/?p=26647"},"modified":"2010-02-17T12:38:38","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T17:38:38","slug":"sk-telecom-stuffs-android-cpu-and-memory-into-a-sim-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/332177","title":{"rendered":"SK Telecom stuffs Android, CPU, and memory into a SIM card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/SKTelecom.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"SKTelecom\" width=\"400\" height=\"200\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26648\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Think about the size of an SD card. What things could you design in that amount of space? I think I <em>might<\/em> be able to build a stick figure out of tooth picks in a space that size. It probably wouldn&#8217;t even be very good.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps just to show that they can (or perhaps because they just have extra money to throw around <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/2008\/08\/14\/virgin-mobilehelio-merger-starts-wrapping-up\">after getting rid of Helio<\/a>) SK Telecom has gone and stuffed Android <em>and<\/em> just about everything needed to run it down into a SIM card. <\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-26647\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>SK&#8217;s Android SIM packs a CPU, system memory, and 1 gigabyte of flash storage inside &#8211; in other words, it&#8217;s more or less everything but the display and input device.<\/p>\n<p>Now, what exactly does that mean to you and I? Not a whole lot, at this point. It&#8217;s just a prototype for now, and they don&#8217;t have any immediate plans to bring it to the market. If they <em>do<\/em> bring it to the market, however, it could work out to some pretty cool stuff; you could pop your SIM from one device to another (like from your phone to a tablet, or a netbook for example) and bring everything from the OS, to the settings, to all of your files with it.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, there are about a dozen ways to do that without stuffing everything onto the SIM (like syncing everything to the cloud, for example), which is presumably a big part of the reason why this is solely conceptual. SK Telecom is considering making themed versions of the chips (such as Android installs pre-loaded with wallpapers and media for sports teams) which carriers could sell to the consumers in place of pre-flashed handsets. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/e62Wklv4xvBpfIEcGHDcOaSuNsw\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/e62Wklv4xvBpfIEcGHDcOaSuNsw\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/e62Wklv4xvBpfIEcGHDcOaSuNsw\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/e62Wklv4xvBpfIEcGHDcOaSuNsw\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?a=ZiTKCmYLrh0:9Ey7n9TM0DA:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?i=ZiTKCmYLrh0:9Ey7n9TM0DA:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?a=ZiTKCmYLrh0:9Ey7n9TM0DA:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?i=ZiTKCmYLrh0:9Ey7n9TM0DA:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?a=ZiTKCmYLrh0:9Ey7n9TM0DA:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Mobilecrunch?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think about the size of an SD card. What things could you design in that amount of space? I think I might be able to build a stick figure out of tooth picks in a space that size. It probably wouldn&#8217;t even be very good. 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