[ietf78-tech] sims

[joel jaeggli]

I'm sort of a fan of the xacto knife...

http://www.touchuserguide.com/2010/04/05/how-to-make-your-own-ipad-micro-sim/

oddly we use to have to do this to make the dual-sim adapters work in a 
normal sim socket...

on the other hand it's sort of a jack move to deliberately used a 
smaller sim-form factor in a device as large as it is.

On 2010-06-17 18:49, Chris Elliott wrote:
> Geert,
>
> You probably know this, but the iPad (and the new iPhone 4) use the
> micro sims. Now, you can carefully cut a full-sized sim down to fit, but
> it would probably be more popular to be able to get a micro...
>
> Enjoy!
> Chris.
>
> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 9:07 PM, Geert Jan de Groot <geertj at psg.com
> <mailto:geertj at psg.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:11:45 -0700 Randy Bush wrote:
>      > we gonna be able to get ipad+3g local sims and pay for a month of
>      > service as we do in the states?
>
>     I'm sort-of offline till sunday, dealing with electrical power and
>     safety
>     at http://rodeo.scouting.nl (Dutch only, sorry, but you'll
>     get the gist)
>
>     What you want is "prepay" (this is easy), with "data" (which is
>     what I need to research). The telco's use data to guide people
>     to a subscription rather than a prepay card, so this isn't easy.
>
>     In general, there are 3 mobile telco's:
>     - KPN mobile: incumbent telco, good coverage.
>       Other brand names: Telfort, Hi
>     - Vodaphone: KPN's big competitor, good coverage
>     - T-mobile: 3rd operator. They have coverage issues, and more important,
>       severe 3G capacity problems, up to the point where they re-imburse
>       UMTS customers at this time. I'm a T-mobile customer and unfortunately
>       can confirm these problems.
>
>     What's the data volume (roughly) you're planning to burn?
>
>     Let me get back to you on this next week, OK?
>
>     GJ
>
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