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ARM wants mobile or IoT devices to include a tiny integrated SIM card:
Every millimeter of space matters when you're trying to build increasingly complex electronics into increasingly tiny packages, and the relatively spacious SIM card has long been an area of frustration for hardware manufacturers. Now, the chip design company ARM may have an answer: an integrated component called an iSIM that's built into the same chip as the processor.
ARM says the iSIM will take up a "fraction of a millimeter squared," whereas the current SIM standard — Nano SIMs — are about 12.3 x 8.8mm in size, not including the hardware usually needed to house them. Not only will that save space, but ARM says it'll more importantly save on costs, too: instead of paying "tens of cents" per card, manufacturers will be paying single-digital cents.
Also at CNET, Tom's Hardware, and Wccftech.
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(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday February 22 2018, @01:46PM (3 children)
That's not more portable, that's less. Right now it takes me a few seconds and zero calls to a support line.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Thursday February 22 2018, @05:03PM (2 children)
To move your number from one handset to another, yes. But what does it take to move your phone number to a different carrier?
(Score: 2) by kazzie on Thursday February 22 2018, @07:19PM
In the UK, a Porting Authorisation Code (PAC), which you request from your current carrier, and submit to your new carrier. The carriers then sort it out in the background within a day or so.
I understand that some other countries have their own systems, which get it done in minutes.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday February 23 2018, @01:30AM
Which is entirely non-useful when you're talking IoT gear.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.