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Mini sim/micro sim

baaah · 2013-01-24 19:20:12

I was looking at buying an unlocked phone off Amazon. When I looked at the spec on gsmarina, it said the phone uses a minisim. Is this just another name for a microsim, or are they different? Thanks

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24-01-2013 8:20pm

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baaah

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I was looking at buying an unlocked phone off Amazon. When I looked at the spec on gsmarina, it said the phone uses a minisim. Is this just another name for a microsim, or are they different?

Thanks

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#2 24-01-2013 9:10pm
Davy

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Mini sim is normal sim, it's just a way to categorise all phones for search purposes.

Micro is smaller

Nano sim is smallest

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#3 24-01-2013 9:12pm
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i remember sim cards as big as a credit card...

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#4 24-01-2013 9:12pm
blaz

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A minisim is the standard size SIM that most phones use. A microsim is smaller and used by the newer iPhones and some other newer phones.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subscriber_identity_module

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#5 25-01-2013 10:51pm
baaah

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OK thanks everyone for the clarifications. I was just familiar with the terms sim, microsim, nanosim. Never heard the term minisim.

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