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Tiny Nano-SIM Cards Are Coming

7:00AM November 12, 2011 | Adrian Covert

Data, reception, battery, screen, CPU, weight, size. These are the mobile phone specs I’m concerned. Smaller SIM cards? Not so much. But Giesecke & Devrient, one of the original SIM manufactuers, thinks we need a nano-SIM that’s 30 per cent smaller. Great? More »

Micro SIM Cards: Just Like A SIM Card, But A Lil’ Smaller

5:26AM February 3, 2010 | Matt Buchanan

One of the new bits of iPad viscera announced by Steve Jobs, besides the A4 chip, is that it’s using a micro-SIM card for its 3G powers. What, pray tell, is a micro-SIM card? More »

Gaming

EA Announces SimCity and the Sims 3 for the iPhone: Spore Coming on September 7th

8:16AM September 5, 2008 | Sean Fallon

EA has announced that nine new titles are currently in development for the iPhone: Yahtzee Adventures, EA Mini Golf, Lemonade Tycoon, Mahjong, Monopoly: Here & Now The World Edition, SimCity, Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 09, Need for Speed Undercover, and The Sims 3. Many of these titles have been mentioned before, but I was pretty pumped to hear about SImCity and the Sims 3 being added to the list. EA has also revealed that they are shooting to release Spore Origins on September 7th—the same day it is released on the Mac and PC. Hit the jump for some new Spore screenshots and the official press release.

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Real-People Sims Fully Realizes Your Cruel God Aspirations

3:38AM October 2, 2007 | Jesus Diaz

newVideoPlayer("real_life_sims_gawker.flv", 475, 376); While real-life Donkey Kong looks fun and real-life Tetris looks silly, playing this version of The Sims, which was set up at this weekend’s Picnic 2007 in Amsterdam, just looks dumb. Unless you can make those two get their white underwear off, that is. [vpro] More »