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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: 4, Touché) by maxwell demon on Thursday February 22 2018, @07:04PM (2 children)
No, it makes perfectly sense:
"longer battery life" — he wants to use the phone as backup battery when his main battery goes empty.
"no crap in the software" — he certainly doesn't want to get infected when connecting to the phone.
"no problems in using it as audio player-external hd" — his internal HD is a bit small, so he also wants to use the phone as external HD. Of course he won't put his vital stuff there, but by moving the audio stuff, he gets more space for the important stuff on the internal HD.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Friday February 23 2018, @10:42AM (1 child)
Also I had said You, not Me.
What I want from a phone:
1. a sexy I/O connector
2. ???
3. PROFIT!!!
Account abandoned.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Friday February 23 2018, @07:59PM
BotPorn?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.