SUPER SIMS MAKE DEBUT

Written by Adam Gosling

Monday, 20 February 2006

Mobile phone group, Orange, is set to massively increase the amount of data you can store on a mobile phone SIM card. Later this year the company plans to launch a card capable of storing 512MB, 8,000 times more than is possible on today’s SIMs. The additional storage capabilities on such ‘Mega-SIMs’ could help phone companies turn regular phones in multimedia warehouses. A 512-megabyte MegaSIM could store up to 130 songs, three movies or 80 games, compared with existing 64 kilobyte cards which could at best store a phone book and some text messages. The cards are the result of a collaboration with M-systems, Oberthur Card Systems and LG Electronics. The new SIM cards could potentially impact on the market for additional storage cards fitted into external slots on multimedia handheld devices. Related news items Armani, Prada, Labels Get Mobile -26/09/2007 New Flash Memeory Card Standard Coming -16/09/2007 Engin Buys Into Unwired -03/09/2007 Phone, iPod Link With New Music Pack -03/09/2007 Mobile Speakerphone From Jabra -30/08/2007 Newer news items Samsung Z510 Ultra Slim 3G -20/03/2006 Motorola Gets More Colourful -20/03/2006 Samsung Announces 10 Megapixel Phone -08/03/2006 Sony Ericsson Leverages Cyber-shot Brand -01/03/2006 NEW iMATE FLIP FACTOR -27/02/2006 Older news items PALMSOURCE RELEASES LINUX FOR SMARTPHONES -15/02/2006 SMARTPHONE MARKET TO GROW AT 70% -24/01/2006 RIM TARGETS SMB CHRISTMAS WISHLIST -08/12/2005 NOKIA ANNOUNCES UPnP DEVICE -22/11/2005 THE ULTIMATE GIRLY PHONE -09/11/2005 Tag This Now: