If you are one of the many impatient Apple fans from outside the US who have imported a 3G iPad, you will no doubt be more than familar with the lack of micro-SIM cards available on the global market.

Apple’s new iPad 3G will use a different type of SIM card, a Micro SIM card which is slightly smaller than existing SIM cards. It turns out that the design of the Micro SIM card will allow it to be ...

While the news of Apple's iPad having 3G wasn't exactly a surprise, the move to a new format for the SIM certainly was. The SIM-- that tiny card that holds your contact info and account information ...

What if, rather than buying a MiFi or using a WiFi router app like on the Palm Pre Plus, you could stick a SIM in any device and have a shared 3G connection? That's what Sagem Orga and Telefonica are ...

The decision to use an unusually small SIM card in the iPad means current iPhone customers can't just use their iPhone's SIM in an iPad, as we reported last week. It appears increasingly likely that ...

Thanks to a small plastic adapter, iPhone owners can take their micro-SIM card and use it with another cell phone. Kent was a senior managing editor at CNET News. A veteran of CNET since 2003, he ...

All modern iPhones and iPads now use nano-SIM cards. Unfortunately, this can be a bit of a problem for anyone switching from an older device, because the nano-SIM is much smaller than the micro-SIMs ...

Molex Incorporated has expanded its micro-SIM card socket portfolio for mobile device manufacturers. Designed for smart phones, tablet PCs, GPS watches and other space-constrained applications, ...

Carrier has made it easier for AT&T iPhone 4 users to bring over their device to its wireless network. The offer comes at the same time AT&T is attempting to acquire T-Mobile. Roger Cheng Former ...

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The subscriber identity module -- SIM -- contains the information used to connect to your wireless carrier's network from your iPhone 4. If you are planning to resell your company's iPhones, you ...