We use so many things in our daily life, but never pay attention to their design. From the USB port to the buttons of your ...

Apple has submitted a proposal to the European Telecoms Standards Body (ETSI) that would define a SIM card that's smaller even than the microSIM it uses in the iPhone 4 and iPad. Apple proposed ...

Has the eSIM standard finally caught up with the old-school SIM? Why aren’t we all living in a post-SIM card world? Let’s take a closer look at the current state of eSIM adoption. The US leads ...

You can trim a standard SIM card down to fit these standards -- Sharon Vaknin of CNET offers a tutorial on how to do this -- but if you do it incorrectly, you damage the SIM card irreparably.

Instead of using standard SIM cards in its new iPad Air 2 and iPad mini 3, Apple has equipped both with a new " Apple SIM." ...

The SIM card (short for subscriber identification module) is more like a computer than a standard piece of hardware, with both memory and a central processor unit.

But there are also Micro SIM cards and standard SIM cards. The good news is that the only difference is in size and shape, but the actual SIM card chip is the same regardless of which one you use.

You place your standard SIM card into the designated slot, press down, and the tool precisely cuts the SIM card to the micro SIM size. This ensures that the cut is clean and accurate, preventing ...

Unlike the iPad Mini, which uses a nano SIM card, the standard iPad uses a slightly larger micro SIM card. The SIM card is locked to a particular cellular data provider, so if you switch carriers ...