Find out how to trim your own micro-SIM card for use in phones that require this new format. Sharon Profis Former Vice President of Content, CNET Studios As vice president of CNET Studios, Sharon led ...

The decision to use an unusually small SIM card in the iPad means current iPhone customers can't just use their iPhone's SIM in an iPad, as we reported last week. It appears increasingly likely that ...

Molex Incorporated has expanded its micro-SIM card socket portfolio for mobile device manufacturers. Designed for smart phones, tablet PCs, GPS watches and other space-constrained applications, ...

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 ...

Apple filed a patent application for a micro SIM card connector several months ago. Apple has now officially been granted a patent covering the micro SIM card connector designed to make it easy to ...

While the news of Apple's iPad having 3G wasn't exactly a surprise, the move to a new format for the SIM certainly was. The SIM-- that tiny card that holds your contact info and account information ...

Apple’s new iPad 3G will use a different type of SIM card, a Micro SIM card which is slightly smaller than existing SIM cards. It turns out that the design of the Micro SIM card will allow it to be ...

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.

Adam Z. Lein has been a tech journalist at Pocketnow since 2002. He's also been a photographer since 1995 and a web developer & graphic designer since 1997 while working on the DEC intranet. He's also ...

If you are one of the many impatient Apple fans from outside the US who have imported a 3G iPad, you will no doubt be more than familar with the lack of micro-SIM cards available on the global market.

If you’ve bought an iPad with 4G/cellular capabilities (we discuss whether that’s a good idea in our 2015 iPad buying guide) or a new iPhone, you need to buy and install a SIM card. Here, we explain ...

Thanks to a small plastic adapter, iPhone owners can take their micro-SIM card and use it with another cell phone. Kent was a senior managing editor at CNET News. A veteran of CNET since 2003, he ...