http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/sk-telecoms-android-sim-prototype-combines-cpu-storage-and-os/ Engadget Comments for SK Telecom's Android SIM prototype combines CPU, storage and OS into one (video) 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/2010/02/17/sk-telecoms-android-sim-prototype-combines-cpu-storage-and-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/sk-telecoms-android-sim-prototype-combines-cpu-storage-and-os/Awesome! /s]]>Feb 17th 2010 8:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/sk-telecoms-android-sim-prototype-combines-cpu-storage-and-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/sk-telecoms-android-sim-prototype-combines-cpu-storage-and-os/Not quite. Ideally, with Android, most of your data will be up in the cloud. The SIM would just contain the OS itself and your settings or personal preferences.

I had wanted to see something like this for several years now; the great thing of such a set up is that jetsetters wouldn't have to dream of a holy-grail quad-GSM, quad-UMTS, WiMAX and LTE all-in-one device. Instead, just get a device with the correct antenna for your region, and pop in the OS-of-your-choice SIM; your entire (personalized) software experience made to run on any phone.]]>Feb 17th 2010 8:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/sk-telecoms-android-sim-prototype-combines-cpu-storage-and-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/sk-telecoms-android-sim-prototype-combines-cpu-storage-and-os/Sounds great, really does, but that does require some serious setting of open standards and/or freely available drivers for lots of chips... Won't be within 3 years if you ask me, probably not even in 5?]]>Feb 17th 2010 9:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/sk-telecoms-android-sim-prototype-combines-cpu-storage-and-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/sk-telecoms-android-sim-prototype-combines-cpu-storage-and-os/Feb 17th 2010 12:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/sk-telecoms-android-sim-prototype-combines-cpu-storage-and-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/sk-telecoms-android-sim-prototype-combines-cpu-storage-and-os/I travel internationally like a lot of people here and when I do, I simply take out my sim and put in a new sim of the country I'm in. Usually a pay as you go sim card. I can easily lose my sim in that situation.
Also, this would mean I'd have to get a pay as you go sim with this technology or I'm just carrying a brick around.

For this to work, it would have to be the norm. That or they'd only have specific devices that worked with the technology. Either way, this would be a leap so giant, it's pretty much unimaginable at the moment.]]>Feb 17th 2010 12:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/sk-telecoms-android-sim-prototype-combines-cpu-storage-and-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/sk-telecoms-android-sim-prototype-combines-cpu-storage-and-os/I'm trying to fathom up a scenario where if I lost my SIM.. I wouldn't have lost my phone along with it since that's where it resides... but I'm coming up blank..]]>Feb 17th 2010 2:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/sk-telecoms-android-sim-prototype-combines-cpu-storage-and-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/sk-telecoms-android-sim-prototype-combines-cpu-storage-and-os/I just gave you one in the post above but I guess you decided to try to be clever instead of reading, or thinking harder for that matter eh? :)]]>Feb 17th 2010 3:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/sk-telecoms-android-sim-prototype-combines-cpu-storage-and-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/sk-telecoms-android-sim-prototype-combines-cpu-storage-and-os/Feb 17th 2010 8:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/sk-telecoms-android-sim-prototype-combines-cpu-storage-and-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/sk-telecoms-android-sim-prototype-combines-cpu-storage-and-os/Feb 17th 2010 8:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/sk-telecoms-android-sim-prototype-combines-cpu-storage-and-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/sk-telecoms-android-sim-prototype-combines-cpu-storage-and-os/Feb 17th 2010 8:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/sk-telecoms-android-sim-prototype-combines-cpu-storage-and-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/sk-telecoms-android-sim-prototype-combines-cpu-storage-and-os/Feb 17th 2010 8:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/sk-telecoms-android-sim-prototype-combines-cpu-storage-and-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/sk-telecoms-android-sim-prototype-combines-cpu-storage-and-os/Feb 17th 2010 8:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/sk-telecoms-android-sim-prototype-combines-cpu-storage-and-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/sk-telecoms-android-sim-prototype-combines-cpu-storage-and-os/
One day I might need thin and light portability in my handset so I'll grab my candybar and slide the SIM in and boot to a simple phone. Maybe the next I need to go to a big hot-shot corporate meeting so I'll grab my netbook and slide the SIM in and give a presentation with it. And then the next day I'll be investigated for embezzling by the FBI - and it's a hell of a lot simpler to shove a SIM card up there than a cellphone.]]>Feb 17th 2010 8:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/sk-telecoms-android-sim-prototype-combines-cpu-storage-and-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/sk-telecoms-android-sim-prototype-combines-cpu-storage-and-os/Feb 17th 2010 10:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/sk-telecoms-android-sim-prototype-combines-cpu-storage-and-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/sk-telecoms-android-sim-prototype-combines-cpu-storage-and-os/
I can't think of a reason I'd ever want one of these sim cards, but I read about one that turns your 3g/4g phone into a wifi hotspot awhile ago, and would definitely want one of those.]]>Feb 17th 2010 11:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/sk-telecoms-android-sim-prototype-combines-cpu-storage-and-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/sk-telecoms-android-sim-prototype-combines-cpu-storage-and-os/
Isn't the whole point of a SIM to separate authorization from the handset and it's applications anyway?]]>Feb 17th 2010 8:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/sk-telecoms-android-sim-prototype-combines-cpu-storage-and-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/sk-telecoms-android-sim-prototype-combines-cpu-storage-and-os/
We still haven't found the right way to do things like this yet. This SIM has potential upgrading problems]]>Feb 17th 2010 2:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/sk-telecoms-android-sim-prototype-combines-cpu-storage-and-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/sk-telecoms-android-sim-prototype-combines-cpu-storage-and-os/Feb 17th 2010 8:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/sk-telecoms-android-sim-prototype-combines-cpu-storage-and-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/sk-telecoms-android-sim-prototype-combines-cpu-storage-and-os/Feb 17th 2010 9:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/sk-telecoms-android-sim-prototype-combines-cpu-storage-and-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/sk-telecoms-android-sim-prototype-combines-cpu-storage-and-os/Feb 17th 2010 9:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/sk-telecoms-android-sim-prototype-combines-cpu-storage-and-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/sk-telecoms-android-sim-prototype-combines-cpu-storage-and-os/And to those that think that the processor will be outdated and then you'll have to get a new SIM (and these babies sure will be expensive, if there's any decent processing power in them), you're probably right, but maybe that will shift.
We're seeing major Android updates being pushed back to quite a few older devices, Apple provided OS upgrades for even the 1st generation iPhone quite some time, and I can run WM6.5.3 on a phone that once came with WM5.
And this is a trend that should be continued, as I think a lot of software optimisation can and should be done, because even though just shoving a new chip in may be easier, and even cheaper if you calculate the hours programmers have to make to make new great software work on older chips, replacing gadget after gadget because new silicon has arrived is certainly not as environmentally friendly as updating the software is.]]>Feb 17th 2010 9:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/sk-telecoms-android-sim-prototype-combines-cpu-storage-and-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/sk-telecoms-android-sim-prototype-combines-cpu-storage-and-os/Ans did anyone of you realise theres more than one processing unit in a modern phone? they could still differ in 3D, Audio, ... accelerators.
Mayber the approach would be to not use the slow cpu in high end phones but to make it a lot cheaper to produce dumpphones that dont need much power ;)]]>Feb 17th 2010 9:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/sk-telecoms-android-sim-prototype-combines-cpu-storage-and-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/sk-telecoms-android-sim-prototype-combines-cpu-storage-and-os/Feb 17th 2010 10:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/sk-telecoms-android-sim-prototype-combines-cpu-storage-and-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/sk-telecoms-android-sim-prototype-combines-cpu-storage-and-os/Feb 17th 2010 10:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/sk-telecoms-android-sim-prototype-combines-cpu-storage-and-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/sk-telecoms-android-sim-prototype-combines-cpu-storage-and-os/Feb 17th 2010 11:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/sk-telecoms-android-sim-prototype-combines-cpu-storage-and-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/sk-telecoms-android-sim-prototype-combines-cpu-storage-and-os/
Basically this is carrier locking to the max. It would be near impossible to simply switch SIMs and thus switch carriers on a whim's notice.

OS on a chip = cool
OS + telecom on a chip = NOT cool]]>Feb 17th 2010 11:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/sk-telecoms-android-sim-prototype-combines-cpu-storage-and-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/sk-telecoms-android-sim-prototype-combines-cpu-storage-and-os/Feb 17th 2010 11:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/sk-telecoms-android-sim-prototype-combines-cpu-storage-and-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/sk-telecoms-android-sim-prototype-combines-cpu-storage-and-os/Feb 17th 2010 12:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/sk-telecoms-android-sim-prototype-combines-cpu-storage-and-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/sk-telecoms-android-sim-prototype-combines-cpu-storage-and-os/Feb 17th 2010 1:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/sk-telecoms-android-sim-prototype-combines-cpu-storage-and-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/sk-telecoms-android-sim-prototype-combines-cpu-storage-and-os/Feb 17th 2010 1:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/sk-telecoms-android-sim-prototype-combines-cpu-storage-and-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/sk-telecoms-android-sim-prototype-combines-cpu-storage-and-os/
The NES based cell phone... awesome.

This thing... not quite so.]]>Feb 17th 2010 3:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/sk-telecoms-android-sim-prototype-combines-cpu-storage-and-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/sk-telecoms-android-sim-prototype-combines-cpu-storage-and-os/Feb 17th 2010 3:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/sk-telecoms-android-sim-prototype-combines-cpu-storage-and-os/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/sk-telecoms-android-sim-prototype-combines-cpu-storage-and-os/yeah I have a 1ghz,32GB,android,and verizon(no carrier offense) on my SIM but thats probably faarrrr off. ]]>Feb 17th 2010 4:53PM