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.

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 ...

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 ...

What you see in the image above is the evolution of mobile phone SIM card design over the past four years. The largest in the image, known as the mini-SIM, was used for quite a while as the standard ...

So you are looking for the best smartphones with Nano SIM card slots? Well, let’s get into it then. Those of you who are not familiar with SIM cards, I bet you use CDMA phones. SIM (subscriber ...

Apple has been striving to get its new Nano SIM card design approved as the industry standard, while companies like Nokia, RIM, and Motorola have been advocating for an alternative design. The ...

I've been a tech journalist for almost 25 years and started Pocket-lint in 2003. Over the years I've questioned or interviewed leading tech industry figures from Steve Jobs, Steve Ballmer, Mark ...

BlackBerry did a good job of keeping things neat and tidy under the battery door of the BlackBerry Z10. The Micro SD card is easy to insert and remove from its slot, as is the battery. When it comes ...