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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Apple has won a battle over the standard for a smaller SIM card, use of which would leave more room for other components in future phone designs. The Smart Card Platform Technical Committee of 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 ...
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 ...
Google is set to unveil its new Pixel devices on August 20, and a new leak suggests a major change is coming to the upcoming smartphones. According to tipster Evan Blass on X (formerly Twitter), the ...
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 ...