http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/
O wait, that would make sense.]]>Jan 28th 2010 8:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/Jan 28th 2010 8:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/Jan 28th 2010 8:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/
Anyways, I think this video sums up the iPad rather well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQnT0zp8Ya4]]>Jan 28th 2010 8:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/Still if it's a new standard it's ok for the new cellphones to adopt it as long as it's better than the last standard, and that seems the case.]]>Jan 28th 2010 9:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/
Really this is just apple being apple. We are god and do as we say! They never like to follow standards set by others.]]>Jan 28th 2010 10:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/
This isn't as rare as one would think. Micro SIM is used a lot in M2M (machine to machine eg. tractors etc) and powermeters so most telcos will have them in stock. There just arent phones that use it so it hasn't been offered to customers.

You might have one without your knowledge. If you have a power meter with remote reading it probably has one of these inside.]]>Jan 28th 2010 10:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/
But why is that a worry? The other device is (a) under contract already (b) unlocked or (c) not subsidized (or subsidy paid off). If AT&T is willing to sell data at $30/month w/o contract for an iPad, why would they care if that data is being used on a blackberry or droid?]]>Jan 28th 2010 10:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/Probably because you're not an engineer, you don't know anything about consumer electronics hardware, you don't know anything about running a cellular network.

In other words — you had none of the information the Apple/AT&T had available when making the call. I doubt the decision went like this: toss a coin, heads: micro SIM, tails: SIM. Oh look heads it is…]]>Jan 29th 2010 3:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/
Come on, that comment is just not smart. If this newfangled SIM was so great, why isn't it in the iPhone and in every new phone being produced?

Of course there was no coin toss - the argument went like this: How to make a lot of money, because we're not a charity and our shareholders tasks us to make money? Let's once again use the fact that our loyal consumer will suck it up and buy it anyway if it's half decent and good looking.

That's how it went. That's what we would've done if our jobs were to maximize profit for a company like Apple. It doesn't make me less fed up with Apple's crap, but here we are...]]>Jan 29th 2010 9:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/Jan 29th 2010 10:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/Nobody cares about iPad anymore.
In begging it was interesting, then it got annoying, then it was disappointing, and now simply super annoying and not interesting!
Thank you]]>Jan 28th 2010 8:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/Jan 28th 2010 8:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/
anyone else getting annoyed by these, and similar, comments?]]>Jan 28th 2010 8:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/
Yes.]]>Jan 28th 2010 8:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/Jan 28th 2010 8:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/Jan 28th 2010 9:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/You have to shut up yourself you pathetic little bitch.]]>Jan 28th 2010 9:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/
Maybe try scrolling real fast when an iPad story comes up rather than spending time reading it?

Hope it helps.]]>Jan 28th 2010 9:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/
What would we ever read on Engadget then? ]]>Jan 28th 2010 10:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/Jan 29th 2010 2:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/Jan 28th 2010 8:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/Jan 28th 2010 8:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/yay indeed, this hopefully means that my fellow canadians and i wont have to see any pretentious hipsters wandering around with their oversized ipods for now.]]>Jan 28th 2010 9:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/Jan 29th 2010 6:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/Jan 28th 2010 8:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/
i-nPadget?]]>Jan 28th 2010 11:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/Jan 28th 2010 8:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/Jan 28th 2010 8:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/Jan 28th 2010 8:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/Jan 28th 2010 8:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/
Because the iPhone is subsidized and the iPad is not? After 2 years, your contract is up and you can haz month to month at $30.]]>Jan 28th 2010 10:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/
because the subsidy is in the price plan not the add on features
$30 is the standard price for smart devices]]>Jan 28th 2010 11:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/
btw, most people should be happy its not $60/month. that's what most people are having to pay to connect their tablets/netbooks/pcs]]>Jan 28th 2010 11:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/
Sorry Canada, I'm leaving you.]]>Jan 29th 2010 10:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/Jan 28th 2010 8:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/Yeah I don't know what everyone is freaking out about, it's a smaller standard card which will lead to smaller devices. At least it's not CDMA without SIM cards.]]>Jan 28th 2010 8:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/Jan 28th 2010 9:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/
forget about how small it fucking isn't

Its about the god damn new card. You have to start somewhere and this new device is starting it off. Now its a big step to the new card. Everyone shut up about it. Its a new sim card standard. We needed some change eventually. get over it.]]>Jan 28th 2010 9:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/
its just annoying

had they gone with a standard size then people would have been able to use their existing card and plan in their ipad for occasional browsing. and vice versa (use ipad sim to go online on other devices)]]>Jan 28th 2010 11:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/
Um yeah... I don't think so.

If there was going to be a ground breaking new standard for sim cards, wouldn't it make sense for a phone to be the pioneer. Since, you know, they are primarily for phones. Like someone commented earlier, micro sims are already used in embedded applications, and they still aren't in phones.]]>Jan 29th 2010 3:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/Jan 28th 2010 8:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/Jan 29th 2010 1:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/
so will apple ipad revolutionize the tablet industry. ?
Yes or no.
Exactly. ]]>Jan 28th 2010 8:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/revolution on the tablets??
LOL at your ?]]>Jan 28th 2010 9:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/Jan 28th 2010 8:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/No thanx!!!!!!!!!!!!!]]>Jan 28th 2010 9:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/
it's alright, she was a Tramp anyways..... *shrugs***]]>Jan 29th 2010 1:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/Jan 28th 2010 9:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/28/rest-easy-ipad-roamers-o2-and-orange-have-micro-sim-orders-to/Jan 28th 2010 9:29PM