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You’ve just bought yourself an iPhone – welcome to the club! However, while you thought you’d just be able to pop your existing SIM card into your iPhone, you might be wrong. That’s dependant on not ...

The SIM cards that fit into those tiny slots in your cell phone and tell your cellular network to whom your calls are to be charged come in four different sizes. With the only real difference between ...

If you’re expecting a new iPhone 5 on Friday, and you’re buying it unlocked directly from Apple, you’re going to need a nano-SIM to go with it. Obtaining one is easy if your carrier is one supporting ...

Sometimes the simplest things in life are the most necessary ones. Every phone inevitably uses a different size SIM card, and it’s more difficult than it should be to just get your old SIM card into ...

As a last resort you can get a good paris of scissors and chop down your SIM. This is how I have done it in the past and if done carefully works very well. If you have access to another Nano or Micro ...

The Verge has obtained detailed information on the so-called “nano-SIM” proposals from Apple, Nokia, and RIM. The Verge has obtained detailed information on the so-called “nano-SIM” proposals from ...

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.

4FF stands for 4th Form Factor. A SIM card that is simply physically smaller than a traditional (2FF) SIM card or Micro-SIM (3FF) card. See: SIM The electric contacts and circuitry of a Nano-SIM are ...

Thinking of hopping on a new contract, but lacking that smaller SIM standard that the iPhone 5 will be packing? You'd best pick up one of these, then. UK carriers, including Three and Vodafone, are ...

Just in case a micro-SIM card is too bulky for you, Germany’s Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) has announced a nano-SIM card, which is about 30% smaller than the micro-SIM and 60% smaller than a SIM card.