More and more makers of smartphones are switching over to the micro sim card, smaller version of the sim card that was first used in the iPhone 4. After Apple, Motorola, Nokia, and Sony seems to now HTC to change trains.
The micro-sim card has the advantage for the manufacturer that he takes up less space, giving more room for other components, such as the camera or battery. The micro-sim card has existed for some years as a standard, but was first used by Apple in the iPad and iPhone 4 from 2010.
HTC will be quadcore-smartphone One X, which at the end of this month on telecombeurs Mobile World Congress presented would be, also with a microsim to rest, reports Modaco. Thus HTC is the latest in a series of manufacturers who, in the past few months have switched to the smaller sim card.
The first major smartphonefabrikant who converted after Apple proved to be Nokia, that N9 micro-sim in June last year presented. There came later the Windows Phone devices, Lumia 800 and 710. Motorola showed with the Razr in October, its first device with micro-sim. Sony’s new flagship Xperia S in January at the consumer electronics show CES was presented, also has no support for traditional sim cards. Samsung, LG, ZTE and Huawei still have no devices with micro-sim.
The smaller sim cards require users to use their old sim card cut up, or a new microsim applications to their provider. All major Dutch and Belgian providers to deliver now on the request microsims.
The One X will also be the first HTC smartphone to an nfc chip. The smartphone, which runs on a quadcore processor in the form of Nvidia’s Tegra 3, is also the first HTC with Android, no expandable memory; the device has 32GB internal storage. In addition, the One X according to the information, no capacitive buttons under the screen but like the Galaxy Nexus only buttons on the screen.