Micro-SIMs launched in South Africa

Budza said:
I like the lack of fanfare. Just quietly getting the job done. Good stuff.
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...or they don't want every 2nd person phoning them enquiring about the Iphone 4 now that the required micro sims are available ;)
 
or even they dont realise the importance of the step they have taken.....straight over thier heads
 
Micro sim was launched in June by Vodacom and its a 64K card
 
R105! That's crazy.
I have an IPad and bought a R1 normal sim card from Woolies.
I just took a normal scissors and cut the sim to the Micro-sim size.
No need to even mark out the dimensions of the micro-sim.

Did this for a colleague also.
 
What a sweet device the Ipad, had to set one up today for the Top Brass, found it a bit weighty but there are more Pro's going for it. Screen Res is awesome, Responds fast to touch and its super cool device .... oh and it was taken on contract Vodacom at Nashua and the micro sim was supplied also.
 
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iCare said:
Why would anybody pay R105.00 - that's retarded[/URL]
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apple consumers are demonstrably price insenstive, so why the heck not.
i can tell you that in the next 3 years, most moms, pops and kugels buying ipads don't care and won't really want to know that it's the same diffs as your regular sim.
they'll just sign up for the shiny gadget and the rest will all be debited off their accounts.
 
murraybiscuit said:
apple consumers are demonstrably price insenstive, so why the heck not.
i can tell you that in the next 3 years, most moms, pops and kugels buying ipads don't care and won't really want to know that it's the same diffs as your regular sim.
they'll just sign up for the shiny gadget and the rest will all be debited off their accounts.
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Jan Vermeulen said:
Vodacom confirmed that micro-SIMs are currently available from Vodashops for R105 if you'd like to set it up as a Twin Call SIM, or at R62.99 if you do a SIM swap.
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Moving to a smaller form factor for SIM cards is inevitable and this is how Vodacom plans to cash in on this. Consumer electronics' continual miniaturisation of circuitry dictates that space be used more effectively. Or would you rather still be using credit card sized SIMS?
 
cmyplay said:
Moving to a smaller form factor for SIM cards is inevitable and this is how Vodacom plans to cash in on this. Consumer electronics' continual miniaturisation of circuitry dictates that space be used more effectively. Or would you rather still be using credit card sized SIMS?
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How many phones use Micro SIM cards right now...? It is quite ridiculous how only two gadgets that I know of from one company that require a special sized SIM card created(cut).
 
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i can understand the benefit from sd to microsd. you're talking about 1mm thickness and a couple of centimetres of surface area.
i see less benefit with microsim vs sim.
 
DJNgoma said:
They make micro floppy drives these days?
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Is that what she said?

The extra plastic around the chip is a waste. Come to think of it, most of the chip itself is a waste. Hangover from when it was the only place to store phone numbers. So you're going to rebuke advancement at all turns? Must be why you use Android.
 
cmyplay said:
Is that what she said?

The extra plastic around the chip is a waste. Come to think of it, most of the chip itself is a waste. Hangover from when it was the only place to store phone numbers. So you're going to rebuke advancement at all turns? Must be why you use Android.
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We might as well get a CDMA cellular provider, they apparently don't have any waste because they don't use these chips you talk of... How is it an advancement? What real world benefit has it added? They cut it smaller and added nothing extra to the package. From what I can remember we pop out these micro SIM cards out of the same sized plastic cards of normal sized SIM cards, so they in theory provide the same amount of waste. The price of what Vodacom is actually charging for one of these micro SIM cards is even more ludicrous.
 
DJNgoma said:
The price of what Vodacom is actually charging for one of these micro SIM cards is even more ludicrous.
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I don't disagree with that. Vodacom continue to exploit their customers.

DJNgoma said:
How is it an advancement? What real world benefit has it added? They cut it smaller and added nothing extra to the package.
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Was anyone debating the form of the SIM card before it's addition in the iThings? No. Will people look further than their own noses at how effective the current SIMs are? Probably not. How impractical are SIMs in the first place?

Right, so why isn't there a way to do away with the current SIMs? Who actually still stores anything on them anyway? Things are moving away from native to cloud in any case. Why can't this be a way to shake up carriers in a way that improves the way these devices work on their networks? Or is everything always black and white - like an Android app?
 
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