it appears the contacts are the same, just a smaller plastic carrier.

So in theory a pair of nail scissors would fix the problem?-

You can get twin sim holders that allow you to use two normal sims
together in the space normally taken up by one sim - you have to chop
the sims down so that all of the plastic is removed and you are just
left with the metal bit. I bought a special tool to do this with as
it's very hard to do with scissors.

Maybe once the iPad comes out my tool will be in demand!!

Murmansk69 wrote:
You can get twin sim holders that allow you to use two normal sims
together in the space normally taken up by one sim - you have to chop
the sims down so that all of the plastic is removed and you are just
left with the metal bit. I bought a special tool to do this with as
it's very hard to do with scissors.

I thought about that. From looking at the wikipedia page, it seems the uSIM
is bigger than 50% of the size of a normal SIM. So it wouldn't make it
easier to fit in twin SIM holders.

I wonder if someone is going to come up with a uSIM to SIM adaptor?
Otherwise once you've cut your SIM down to uSIM it's a pain to use in a
normal SIM socket (especially those where the SIM goes in a slot, rather
than under a clamp).

Theo

On 2 Feb, 11:50, Theo Markettos
wrote:
Murmansk69 wrote:
You can get twin sim holders that allow you to use two normal sims
together in the space normally taken up by one sim - you have to chop
the sims down so that all of the plastic is removed and you are just
left with the metal bit. I bought a special tool to do this with as
it's very hard to do with scissors.

I thought about that. *From looking at the wikipedia page, it seems the uSIM
is bigger than 50% of the size of a normal SIM. *So it wouldn't make it
easier to fit in twin SIM holders.

I wonder if someone is going to come up with a uSIM to SIM adaptor?
Otherwise once you've cut your SIM down to uSIM it's a pain to use in a
normal SIM socket (especially those where the SIM goes in a slot, rather
than under a clamp).

I don't think using uSIM with u intended to imply the greek letter mu
meaning micro is going to be wise, as it may become ambiguous with
USIM, and not all uSIMs may necessarily contain USIMs

after all the recent editing of that page, they're left with worse
example images than not long ago

actually the relevant dimensions are 25 x 15 and 15 x 12, so the two
alongside is just possible

somewhere I was reading about this, the person realised that one of
the things supplied with the dual SIM kit was a holder to go back to
single, so perhaps these will be available separately from places,
though they'd be of almost nil cost ...... perhaps people can prodiuce
their own, depending whether the original cutting is with scissors or
a punch