Apple to offer its nano-SIM patents royalty-free

#1 Macworld

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Posted 26 March 2012 - 06:11 AM

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#2 rob53

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Posted 26 March 2012 - 07:18 AM

Apple's SIM cards require a tray because there isn't a way to simply slide in the card within the battery compartment. Are any other phones using non-replaceable batteries and simply sliding the card into a slot in the side of the phone? If so, how are these removed? Wouldn't these also require some kind of larger tray-like device to hold the cards? It would be nice to see what the cards look like. I've only seen a micro-SIM not the nano-SIM design.

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Posted 26 March 2012 - 07:51 AM

Which proposed standard is most adaptable to multiple SIMs in a single phone? If more phones could take at least two SIMs, we could break the back of the thieving system of astronomical roaming rates.

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Posted 26 March 2012 - 07:58 AM

I find myself quite skeptical about how much extra battery or memory can be put into the space vacated by a new, smaller form factor. It's about 2.5 cm².

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Posted 26 March 2012 - 08:20 AM

bastion, on 26 March 2012 - 07:58 AM, said:

I find myself quite skeptical about how much extra battery or memory can be put into the space vacated by a new, smaller form factor. It's about 2.5 cm².

2.5 cm^2 is huge—easily enough room for an entire CPU core, or an RF processing chip, or some additional flash memory...