nano sim

If you’re thinking of jumping on the iPhone 5 wagon but is a bit worried that its ultra-tiny SIM card's compatibility to your other devices, then this accessory might just help you with that. The announcement of iPhone 5 has raised quite a lot of eyebrows and one of the reasons for that is its use of Nano-SIM. Luckily, international telcos such as Vodafone are well aware of this and decided to make an adapter for the almost microscopic SIM so you can use it across all your devices. Just when we thought that microSIM design is the smallest that we’ll see on a mobile phone, a new reduced design has been approved to take over its place as the industry standard -- the nano-SIM. ETSI (European Telecommunication Standard Institute) has recently approved Apple's new smaller SIM card design dubbed as the 4FF (4th Form Factor) or Nano-SIM. As the name implies, the new SIM design will be 40% smaller than the current 3FF (3rd Form Factor) Micro-SIM design which is a third smaller than the conventional SIM card. Amongst the company who submitted their nano-SIM proposals were Apple, Motorola, RIM and Nokia. The most bitter of them all was Nokia who thinks that Apple's nano-SIM design is inferior and is not suitable for a number of applications. Read more in our articles including "Make your iPhone 5’s Nano-SIM work on other devices" and "Apple's Nano-SIM is the new Black".