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 ...

Apple wants to take the SIM cards used in GSM phones even smaller. The iPhone-maker has proposed the smaller format to the European telecoms standards body and French carrier Orange is behind the ...

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.

A week after it announced that it had chosen the final standard for the new 4FF nano-SIM standard, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) has finally updated the documentation on ...

Next week, two proposals for a new, smaller SIM card, dubbed nano-SIM—one backed by Apple and the other by Nokia, Research In Motion and Motorola Mobility—will go head-to-head as ETSI (the European ...

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 ...