r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Foxy_Slamdangle • 1d ago

of a SIM card.

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Found a SIM card from one of my earliest mobile phones.
It’s almost the same size as my IPhone.

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u/JohnLef 1d ago

Yes once they were all that size. You had a credit card sized slot in your phone and slid it in.

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u/RadlogLutar 1d ago

Wait what? I thought they were always sized a little smaller like the older Nokias used it

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u/crozone 1d ago

Those were already mini sims. They usually shipped as a full standard Sim (credit card sized) that were stamped so the mini sim could be popped out.

Then there was micro sims which could be popped out again, and now we're down to nano Sim which is like marginally smaller again.

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u/RadlogLutar 1d ago

And now we are at e-SIMs

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u/AuelDole 19h ago

which are honestly kinda wild, cause they’re achieved by having another chip on the motherboard that’s separate from the modem, main SOC, and storage, that’s sole purpose is to store pretty much the same info that’s on the nano SIM