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 ...

I know it might seem like a strange request, but the current carriers have been giving out terrible quality SIM card adapters. They fall apart after a couple of insertion/removal cycles. And due to ...

Adam Z. Lein has been a tech journalist at Pocketnow since 2002. He's also been a photographer since 1995 and a web developer & graphic designer since 1997 while working on the DEC intranet. He's also ...

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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 ...

Find out how to trim your own micro-SIM card for use in phones that require this new format. Sharon Profis Former Vice President of Content, CNET Studios As vice president of CNET Studios, Sharon led ...

If you’ve bought an iPad with 4G/cellular capabilities (we discuss whether that’s a good idea in our 2015 iPad buying guide) or a new iPhone, you need to buy and install a SIM card. Here, we explain ...

3FF stands for 3rd Form Factor. A SIM card that is physically smaller than a traditional (2FF) SIM, but larger than a nano-SIM (4FF). See: SIM The electric contacts and circuitry of a micro-SIM are ...

Conflict is brewing in the mobile world over the adoption of a new, smaller standard for the SIM card — the chip in each GSM phone that dictates which network you connect to and your cellphone number.

Although there are lots of dual SIM phones in the world today, few make the compromise of offering the second SIM card slot with a microSD card slot. This means that you can either use a second SIM ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The Verge has obtained detailed information on the so-called “nano-SIM” proposals from Apple, Nokia, and RIM. The ...