sim cards
Design
SIMbook Holds Phone Numbers, Addresses On Old-School Paper Format
9:00AM Dan Nosowitz | While SIM cards hold all the stuff address books used to, some people just can’t part from that old ink-and-paper. The SIMbook lets people know that you’re aware of modern technology, yet you choose to go retro. More »
Entertainment
Citizen Engineer Releases A Comic All About SIM Hacking (and Tosses In A SIM Reader For Good Measure)
11:20AM Adrian Covert | Phil Torrone and Limor Freid of Adafruit Industries have a video project called Citizen Engineer, where they aim to educate and entertain when it comes to various aspects of open source hacking. Now they’ve released a comic to go with it. More »
Peripherals
Brando’s Randomised Design Formula Once Again Approaches High Art
12:40AM John Herrman | Hong Kong’s premier spare parts crossbreeder has a mixed record, but occasionally does something so inconceivably strange and impractical that you begin to think you’re missing some great, hidden genius. Example! The power strip with a SIM card. More »
Gadgets
SIM Card Spy Ear Gets Smaller, Scumbags Get Bigger
7:40AM Sean Fallon | Like the earlier, larger version, this SIM Card Spy Ear allows users of questionable character to listen in on other people’s conversations by dialing their own phone number. More »
Phones
New SIMs Are the Size of a Pinhead
8:40AM Mark Wilson | While you know SIMs as the tiny cards that slide in your phones/mobile devices, T-Mobile has announced an even smaller SIM the size of a pinhead. More »
Networks
9:12AM Nick Broughall | Do you make a lot of international calls? Do you find the current mobile networks a little – shall we say – expensive? Then the Australian launch yesterday of European phone company Lebara Mobile in Australia will be welcome news, considering their international rates start at just 5c per minute. More »
Lebara MVNO Network Offers Cheap International Mobile Calls
9:12AM Nick Broughall | Do you make a lot of international calls? Do you find the current mobile networks a little – shall we say – expensive? Then the Australian launch yesterday of European phone company Lebara Mobile in Australia will be welcome news, considering their international rates start at just 5c per minute. More »
Phones
2:00PM Nick Broughall | Dual SIM phones are nothing new – especially in Aisa – but for some reason they’ve never taken off in Australia. Maybe it’s because the networks aren’t too keen on you sharing one device between two carriers, or maybe it’s because generally, dual SIM phones have been hideously ugly and complex to operate. So the creatively named DUALSIM phone looks to fill the local market nicely. More »
DUALSIM Phone Has Two Sim Card Slots So You Can Stick It To Your Network
2:00PM Nick Broughall | Dual SIM phones are nothing new – especially in Aisa – but for some reason they’ve never taken off in Australia. Maybe it’s because the networks aren’t too keen on you sharing one device between two carriers, or maybe it’s because generally, dual SIM phones have been hideously ugly and complex to operate. So the creatively named DUALSIM phone looks to fill the local market nicely. More »
Phones
SIMSense Motion Detecting SIM Card: Drunk Dial Even When You Pass Out
7:40AM Sean Fallon | Oberthur Technologies has come up with yet another interesting application of accelerometer technology. Their new SIMSense card is the first motion-sensing SIM card on the planet.
Computers
Sony Vaio P Modded To Accept SIM Cards, 3G via HSDPA Connection
1:10AM John Mahoney | The Vaio P comes with EV-DO hardware, but an enterprising modder has tweaked everyone’s favourite makeup compact netbook to accept HSDPA SIM cards too, for 3G connections from AT&T. It’s not for beginners, though. More »
Software
