Droid 3 Teardown Reveals Surprise Comeback Of SIM Card

The Droid 3′s been out for a month in China, but we’re just now getting our obligatory look under the hood via an iFixit teardown. The big surprise is that Motorola’s new handset is packing a SIM card.

SIM-less phones had put a damper on Verizon’s international capabilities, so the inclusion of the card is good news if you’re looking to use the phone globally. A lot of the specs were leaked last month, so we knew that it had an 8MP camera that records at 1080p, Micro-USB, mini-HDMI and a five-row “full” keyboard. It’s also got a dual core 1Ghz processor, a 960×540-pixel Gorilla glass screen and a 1540mAh batter rated at nine hours. For the full rundown, head over to iFixit.

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(6 Comments)
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    Quin

    Tuesday, July 19, 2011 at 8:52 AM

    Didnt know SIMs had gone anywhere..

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      Deb

      Tuesday, July 19, 2011 at 12:22 PM

      yeah same… unless by sim-less they mean cdma or something?

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        Sean

        Tuesday, July 19, 2011 at 1:01 PM

        Yes, previous Droids were exclusive to Verizon and Verizon runs a CDMA network, no SIM.

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    Matt L

    Tuesday, July 19, 2011 at 4:03 PM

    Whats a Verizon?

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