[ietf78-tech] sims

[Chris Elliott]

On Jun 18, 2010, at 12:24 AM, joel jaeggli <joelja at bogus.com> wrote:

> 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.

Makes more sense with the release of the iPhone 4. Looks like all  
Apple cell-capable devices will be using the micro. The iPad was just  
the first, not an evil plan to thwart using the iPhone sim in the iPad  
after all.

So should we put xactos on the list of kit needed? :-)

> 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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