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 ...

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 ...

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.

MAXIS Berhad will the first local telco to offer the new micro SIM format cards that will be used with new devices such as the Apple iPad 3G. The new SIM format will hold your contact information in a ...

The powers at the ETSI just released the specifications for a new SIM format. This card, the fourth form factor or the 4FF, is 40% smaller than the current micro-SIM card. It looks very similar to ...

The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) has announced a new nano-SIM format, reports “The Verge” (http://macte.ch/034l5). Approved this week at ...

The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) has finally settled on a design for the new nano-SIM format --- officially known as the fourth form factor (4FF) --- after weeks of heated ...

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 ...

As the new iPhone 5 will be moving from the micro SIM cards employed on the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S to a new, smaller nano SIM card to conserve space, wireless carrier AT&T is beginning to stock up on ...

Motorola Mobility and Research in Motion have re-submitted a modified design of the so-called 4FF nano-SIM proposal, according to a report by The Verge. The companies are hoping to reach a ...

ETSI has named the successful nano-SIM format, designed to be 40 percent smaller than existing SIM technology. ETSI has named the successful nano-SIM format, designed to be 40 percent smaller than ...

Despite disapproval from its rivals, Apple’s new 4FF nano-SIM format has been approved by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) this morning, edging out other proposals from the ...