How to make nano-SIM your own hands

In our crazy age of technology development, it often happens that manufacturers do not keep up with progress. So it happened in the field of cellular communication.

Small slot - large SIM card

And the following happened: mobile operators (both operators of the big three, and All the others) did not have time to prepare for the release of the new version of IPhone 5, which works with nano-sim. You can easily find SIM cards of any telecom operator in numerous salons and stores, but they will all be standard. What to do in this situation? Of course, do not despair. It's enough just to make nano-SIM yourself.

Since this problem is not new, there are a lot of instructions on how to make nano-SIM your own hands. It takes no more than 10 minutes of time, even if you do the data manipulation for the first time.

How to properly crop a sim card

In order to make nano-SIM yourself, you will need: scissors, pen Or marker, the standard SIM card of the selected operator.

There is no need to look for a nano-SIM template, since the transformation procedure is trivial.

We take the SIM card and turn it up with a chip. Next, we take the scissors and cut off all the excess that goes beyond the limits of the chip. Do not be afraid - even spoiling the SIM itself, you can easily restore it in your operator's office or buy a new one in any mobile phone.

Trim carefully, try not to touch the chip itself and damage its contacts, otherwise Simka will not work.

Do not forget to mark on the reverse side with a handle or a marker, which of the corners is beveled. By skipping this step, you risk getting an idle nano sim. With your own hands, turning an ordinary card into a nano is easy enough. The main thing is to observe several points.

Another feature of the nano-SIM is that you can do it yourself, but you will have to work a little bit with a nail file or a normal nail file. This is due to the fact that the thickness of the nano-card is slightly smaller than that of the usual one, which means that your cropped version may simply not fit in the card tray. Do not worry, everything is fairly easy and fast to grind.

The difference between nano-sim and micro-sim

In order to save space in the smartphone and its rational use Manufacturers of gadgets make the size of slots for sim cards less and less. Quite a long time, all successfully used the standard sim card, and were quite satisfied. Not so long ago, there were micro-sims, which differed in smaller size, and were actively used in modern devaysah-tablets and smartphones. As soon as operators began to get used to such know-how, as Apple again attracted attention to itself, releasing a new model IPhone 5, designed for nano-sim. And then the fans of the "apple" had serious difficulties - no Russian operator was ready for such sales. Many buyers have not stopped this kind of SIM cards. But the most dedicated fans did not lose heart, but solved this problem quickly enough - to convert from micro-SIM to nano-SIM - it's ten minutes.

The size of the micro-SIM is only 12 mm * 15 mm.

The size of nano-SIM 9mm * 12mm.

With a decrease in size, the SIM card does not lose its functionality. The step from micro-sim to nano-sim is not only a reduction in size, but also a significant change in weight. For comparison, it is enough to take them in hand.

Great news for fans of the "apple"

Many consumers are not ready for such amateur performance by fitting SIM cards to the size of the slot. Do not get upset, as the presentation of the latest version of iPhone was noted that in parallel with the smartphone released about 70 000 nano-sim. Russian communication operators have made an order for a large number of such SIM cards, so you will soon be able to buy nano-sim in any cabin of your city.

Currently, micro- and nano-SIM are used only in Apple models, but in the near future manufacturers such as Samsung, HTC and others plan to move to smaller SIM-cards in order to save precious space in the device.