Giesecke & Devrient says the Apple nano-SIM design for the fourth-generation SIM card prevailed over the rival offering from Nokia and its allies. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 ...

The European Telecommunications Standards Institute on Friday selected Apple's contested "nano-SIM" design as the official fourth form factor for the SIM card standard. The decision was made in a ...

Giesecke & Devrient says it has given Near Field Communication payments a significant boost by developing a SIM card on which several NFC applications can operate simultaneously. The Munich, ...

ETSI has standardized a new form factor (4FF) for the SIM card, 40% smaller than the current smallest design. At its 55th meeting held on 31 May and 1 June 2012 in Osaka, Japan, ETSI’s Smart Card ...

The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) today announced that it has standardized a new SIM card format for mobile devices. The fourth form factor (4FF) card will be 40% smaller than ...

A back room battle has been raging in recent months over the future of something very small: the nano-SIM, a smaller SIM card design that would allow phone makers to fit more hardware in their ...

According to a translated report from Nowhereelse.fr, images of the tray for Apple’s new nano-SIM design started surfacing from China. In June, the ESTI was thought to have selected Apple’s new SIM ...

What you see in the image above is the evolution of mobile phone SIM card design over the past four years. The largest in the image, known as the mini-SIM, was used for quite a while as the standard ...

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 ...

We already knew that Apple is pushing hard to have the European Telecommunications Standards Institute select its nano-SIM card design over competitors like Nokia and Motorola, who proposed their own ...