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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...