Leading telecommunications industry innovators Vodafone, Qualcomm Technologies, and Thales have joined forces to demonstrate a working smartphone featuring iSIM – a new technology enabling the functionality of a SIM card to be integrated into a device’s main processor.
This milestone paves the way for commercialisation of the technology, which could be rolled out in a host of new devices that will use iSIM to connect to mobile services.
The iSIM, based on the ieUICC GSMA specification and which complies with GSMA specifications, embeds the SIM functionality into the device’s main processor, allowing for greater system integration, higher performance, and increased memory capacity. [Read more…] about Vodafone, Qualcomm, and Thales deliver ‘world-first’ smartphone demonstration of integrated SIM technology