ETSI

ETSI adopts new 40% smaller nano-SIM card

The European Telecoms Standards Institute (ETSI) yesterday announced a new form factor (4FF) for the venerable SIM card. The new standard is 40% smaller than the micro-SIM format, the smallest design in use today. Today’s SIM card designs take up a significant amount of space inside a mobile device. This space is more and more valuable in today’s handsets which […]

Apple wants even smaller SIM cards

According to a Reuters report, Apple wants SIM cards to get even smaller than micro-SIM cards in order to make even thinner devices. With the support of a number of carriers including France’s Orange, Apple has proposed a new SIM card standard to the European Telecoms Standards Institute (ETSI). Even smaller than the micro-SIM cards in the Apple iPhone 4 […]