CNET

SIM card maker: Apple's design won standards effort

Giesecke & Devrient says the Apple nano-SIM design for the fourth-generation SIM card prevailed over the rival offering from Nokia and its allies. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 ...
AppleInsider

ETSI chooses Apple's 'nano-SIM' design as new standard

The European Telecommunications Standards Institute on Friday selected Apple's contested "nano-SIM" design as the official fourth form factor for the SIM card standard. The decision was made in a ...
American Banker

New Multi-App SIM Card Design Could Boost NFC Payments

Giesecke & Devrient says it has given Near Field Communication payments a significant boost by developing a SIM card on which several NFC applications can operate simultaneously. The Munich, ...
Phone Scoop

ETSI Standardizes New, Smaller SIM Card Design

The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) today announced that it has standardized a new SIM card format for mobile devices. The fourth form factor (4FF) card will be 40% smaller than ...
Yahoo

New nano-SIM format standardized, 40% smaller than micro-SIM

ETSI has standardized a new form factor (4FF) for the SIM card, 40% smaller than the current smallest design. At its 55th meeting held on 31 May and 1 June 2012 in Osaka, Japan, ETSI’s Smart Card ...
VentureBeat

Motorola, RIM offer Apple compromise in nano-SIM design spat

A back room battle has been raging in recent months over the future of something very small: the nano-SIM, a smaller SIM card design that would allow phone makers to fit more hardware in their ...
Hosted on MSN

SIM Card: Why is the corner of the SIM card cut? There is a big logic behind this which most people do not know..

We use so many things in our daily life, but never pay attention to their design. From the USB port to the buttons of your shirt, there is a special reason behind the design of everything. One such ...
9to5Mac

nano-SIM

According to a translated report from Nowhereelse.fr, images of the tray for Apple’s new nano-SIM design started surfacing from China. In June, the ESTI was thought to have selected Apple’s new SIM ...
AppleInsider

Apple wins key patent for SIM connector designs in mobile products

Apple this week was granted a patent for the design of SIM card connectors found in most mobile devices, a critical step for the company not only in terms of its future mobile hardware initiative but ...
Ars Technica

One nano-SIM to rule them all: Apple submission approved as standard

The nano-SIM design proposed by Apple has been approved by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), opening the door for the creation of even smaller SIM cards and the continued ...
9to5Mac

ETSI selects Apple’s nano-SIM design for new 4FF standard?

We already knew that Apple is pushing hard to have the European Telecommunications Standards Institute select its nano-SIM card design over competitors like Nokia and Motorola, who proposed their own ...