Smaller sim cards proposed

[Glenn]

But it did, so rumour has it, it was called Windows 95.

[Rik]

 

95 wasn't too bad.

[pctech]

My old PC had 95 B with USB extensions.

[Gary]

Smaller sims bigger batteries more internal space for hardware, simple really, and its not like we remove then all the time...unless you are Simon maybe 

[pctech]

No but increases the hassle if you want to switch away.

[Gary]

No but increases the hassle if you want to switch away.

Not really, the adapter for the iPhone 4 sim is a ten second job Mitch and is provided by O2 free.

[Technical Ben]

 They are only doing this because they know that a smaller card will be more easily lost or broken hence they make yet more money out of the replacements.

Although em cards and slots can be a problem in smaller devices, I see no way the current line could impose design restrictions. So it makes you wonder doesn't it.
I see no one trying to make Credit Cards super small.

Why not just go 100% digital? Store the phone book on the "clouds" and just use a 18 digit code for your network access.

It also presumably means that their new sim cards won't fit in other phones, and vice versa. 

This!
My mother refused to get a new phone for ages (rightly so) because she had an old Sim, that was still on a super cheap contract. If she got a replacements sim, they automatically "upgraded" the contract to a more expensive one! 

[Gary]

Although em cards and slots can be a problem in smaller devices, I see no way the current line could impose design restrictions. So it makes you wonder doesn't it.
I see no one trying to make Credit Cards super small.

Why not just go 100% digital? Store the phone book on the "clouds" and just use a 18 digit code for your network access.

This!
My mother refused to get a new phone for ages (rightly so) because she had an old Sim, that was still on a super cheap contract. If she got a replacements sim, they automatically "upgraded" the contract to a more expensive one! 

If you get replacement sims now that does not happen, it didnt when I had an old Genie sim card either, sim cards are owned by the telco so if they go wrong they replace them, they should not upgrade your tariff because your sim needs replacing really. They have to keep sims current and do advise replacing if they are old and you can be on the same tariff for years and get new sims unless I guess it was a network issue like going from wap dial up style internet only internet to GPRS and that was years ago, or maybe mms being added I guess even then you dont have to have it turned on. Weird  but I would have argued that.

[pctech]

She didn't have one of the Philips Diga phones on Cellnet did she which held the tariff and balance on the card itself.

A colleague had one of those right until O2 switched off the supporting servers, I remember him swearing his head off one day when he went to make a call at work and couldn't.

[Technical Ben]

Nah. It was a Nokia. Could probably argue against it, but you know what the sales teams are like!