The German company Giesecke & Devrient has a new variant of the sim card developed to 12mm to 9mm measurement, which is approximately 30 percent smaller than the micro-sim card. The nano-sim is next week.
G&D, also the creators of the original sim card, claiming that their nanomodel compatible with conventional sim cards, the small card in an adapter to stop. According to the German company can be there next year all mobile phones on the market that are equipped with a nano-sim card slot.
Compared with a micro-sim card is the nano variant is 30 percent smaller, and compared with a sim-card of normal size runs on up to 60 percent. G&D also has the nano-sim is 15 percent thinner than the micro-model. The German company has samples released, which is discussed in the new sim card can test.
It is unclear whether the new nano-sim cards will save. The micro-sim card, a smaller version of the ‘regular’ sim card, among other things, the iPhone is used, but many devices are still using the larger version. Also, the GSM Association plan to from next year a standard ready to have sim cards that are integrated in the mobile phone.