Apple has always been pushing the technology to the boundaries and next up is the SIM cards that are being used on the iPhones. As we all know by this time, Apple has already started preparing for the next iPhone and probably the next iPhone’s successors too. So, for the next iPhone, Apple thinks that the SIM card tray costs an expensive real-estate on the device and now, they have proposed that the size of SIM cards could be even smaller than the present Micro-SIM.
With the launch of iPhone 4, Apple pushed some of the mobile carriers to provide users with Micro-SIM cards on demand instead of the regular SIM Cards. And soon after, a huge number of mobile manufacturers adopted this Micro-SIM concept and saved their real-estate.
A recent report by The Financial Times states that Apple is battling with Motorola, RIM and Nokia in a bid to make a new nano-SIM as the next industry standard for SIM Cards. Even though many vendors will be able to use Apple’s design under license, the manufacturers are now ‘afraid’ that Apple would patent this concept for the newly proposed SIM Card standards.
There are already reports floating around that Apple is looking to dump SIM cards all together from their Smartphones and make it a universal On/Off phone instead. Apple already proposed to a lot of carriers that the phones would have a reprogrammable chip, that the carriers can configure to bill and connect the customer to their network.
The report also states that a final decision would be revealed next week. But if this happens, the next iPhone would be the NEXT BIG THING in the mobile phone industry, that would sport a “nano-SIM” instead of “micro-SIM”.