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Convert a SIM To a MicroSIM, With a Meat Cleaver

Posted by timothy on from the next-week-how-to-deliver-a-baby dept.

An anonymous reader writes "This morning, my shiny new iPad 3G 64GB arrived from the USA! The only problem was, it had an AT&T MicroSIM and as yet there is no such thing in the UK. So what's the solution? Get a chopping board, a meat cleaver, and a pair of scissors — simples!"

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  1. Re:That's certainly... by alex-tokar · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Improvisation always wins. I recently solved broken USB connector on my wireless key by cutting a spare USB cable in half, attaching it to the wireless key with soldering iron and some duct tape. Seems to work, and the wireless signal has improved as well!

  2. Re:From Office of Making Things Unnecessarily Smal by RomulusNR · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Just think, the original SIM cards were as big as the piece of plastic you now punch them out of.
    The common SIM we use today is properly called Mini-SIM.
    SIMs use the same technology as smart cards (which every European credit card now is*), so they were originally the same size... no doubt this was back when mobile phones were the size of bricks or worse.

    * We had a French foreign exchange student a few months ago, she tried to use her credit card at a gift shop, and couldn't figure out what she was supposed to do with it as there was no smart card reader. The swipe-and-sign method was completely foreign to her (literally!) just as the chip-and-pin method is foreign (and unavailable) to us. It was enlightening.

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