http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/ 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/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/May 6th 2010 8:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/
But you guys get the idea. I can barely spell, so ALL of MY fingers would be gone if I attempted this.]]>May 6th 2010 8:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/May 6th 2010 8:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/
But I think 2 fingers are enough. So you'll have 8 (in most cases) spare ones to practice on.]]>May 6th 2010 9:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/I agree. Only a pro with years of training is able to distinguish between a sim card and a human finger. Lay people will just wonder 'what is that red stuff coming out of my sim card?'.
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O lol'd. Why aren't you highly ranked yet?]]>May 6th 2010 9:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/Jun 13th 2010 12:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/
Itll be a cold day in hell when i sign up for another unlimited data plan just for 1 device. iv been tethering with sprint for years and i dont plan on stopping unless i have to.]]>May 6th 2010 8:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/
you basically can.

you cut down your sim to micro sim for iPad use and then put it back into your cell with one of those nifty $7 adapters.

only problem is the fact that you can't receive cellphone calls during your iPad sessions ;)]]>May 6th 2010 9:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/
i understand that.. what sad is the fact you have to jump thru these hoops to use data you already pay for.]]>May 6th 2010 9:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/All you need is a phone that can rebroadcast your data signal via WiFi (iPhone + PDAnet). I don't know what the android/WebOS wifi tether program is, but buying a separate data plan is literally the most absurd thing I've heard of any smartphone user doing.

]]>May 6th 2010 9:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/
you're paying for "unlimited data" on this one contract, 1 contract - 1 working SIM :(. It's not "you" who gets the unlimited data, it's basically just your SIM.

if you want to have a 2nd car, you'll pay insurance for that aswell. :/]]>May 6th 2010 9:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/
I also don't buy "unlimited" insurance...

If I buy "unlimited data" I expect just that. Not unlimited to 5GB, not unlimited but limited to one device. You provide me with the ability to take in as much data as I can possibly consume, or you remove the word "unlimited". And drop the price.]]>May 6th 2010 9:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/
this'll bring up the whole "it doesn't say 'all you can eat _HERE_' at the door" discussion though ;)
or the "i'll use the buffet" - "and you ma'am?" - "i'll have a plain plate and a glass of water, thank you" idea :P

you pay for your car to be insured, for your plate to be refilled, for your sim to suck 5gigs (or unlimited, depends on your plan) of data.]]>May 6th 2010 9:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/
Just wait till US wireless providers end "unlimited data plans" and start charging by the byte. You'll be able to tether tether tether up the wazoo but you'll pay for it.]]>May 6th 2010 9:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/Because I will bet you that your Contract state "unlimited data for ONE device..." right?
So, you need to upgrade your plan to a twin-SIM plan.. if they have that option..]]>May 6th 2010 10:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/May 6th 2010 10:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/
my problem is its 2010 and every carrier sells their 3G service and smartphones as so fast and media capable but doesnt want u actually using it for those purposes when they impose caps and force you to buy a seperate line for every device.

So they expect a person to pay for cell 3G, laptop 3G and ipad 3G? yeah ok, when all three offer u the same service and same limitations and none of them should be device specific.]]>May 6th 2010 10:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/
that said, the ATT thing is actually pretty sweet. No contract, I log in from home and set it up, use it the month I need it and then cut it. You can even use a prepaid credit card so long as it has the option to go online and 'register' it with a street address. I don't even have to put my real card number in.
way better than being locked into a contract for X months or pay a huge ETF. ]]>May 6th 2010 11:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/May 6th 2010 5:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/May 6th 2010 8:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/
Because the grown-ups have bigger hands, and SIM cards are fiddly enough as it is? ]]>May 6th 2010 9:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/May 6th 2010 9:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/Fair enough, I guess. I have Verizon anyway so no SIM cards for me. I didn't think people really changed cards that frequently that it would be a major issue if it was small (I'd think people would change memory cards more frequently, and that hasn't stopped MicroSD from existing).]]>May 6th 2010 9:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/I can't imagine being a CDMA user... in the past year, I've changed 3 different providers (3, T-Mobile, O2) and also been on holiday twice (used China Unicom and PCCW), so yes, people do change SIM cards.

Out of curiosity, how do you make phonecalls when you go on holiday?]]>May 6th 2010 9:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/
Generally speaking, Americans don't leave the country as much as Europeans do.

Or at least that's what I was told.

And I still read China Unicorn.]]>May 6th 2010 9:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/
... cannot ... unread ... unicorn ... ... haunts ... me !]]>May 6th 2010 9:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/
I'm pretty sure CDMA is U.S. only so I would guess most people either don't leave the country, or get a disposable phone in the country they decide to visit.

Of course there are hybrid GSM/CDMA phones that people who travel internationally use, but most people have no need for them. ]]>May 6th 2010 9:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/As others have pointed out, I don't leave the country that often. Most recently was last summer I went to Japan for two weeks, but at that time I had a BlackBerry which worked overseas. It was a vacation and not a business trip, so if I didn't have a world phone I probably would have just done without a phone for the two weeks, as hard as it would have been. 98% of my traveling happens within the US (and a majority of that even, is along the east coast, for what it's worth).]]>May 6th 2010 10:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/May 6th 2010 9:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/May 6th 2010 9:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/
the only funny part is that they made the move with the iPad and teardowns pretty much show that there was PLENTY of extra space anyways ;)

when it comes to phones, i agree though]]>May 6th 2010 9:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/
Maybe this is the real reason all the networks over here in the UK like to give away so many “free” sim cards.]]>May 6th 2010 9:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/May 6th 2010 9:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/May 6th 2010 1:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/May 6th 2010 9:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/
I meant use with other phones]]>May 6th 2010 9:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/May 6th 2010 9:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/May 6th 2010 11:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/has anybody ever been caught for
using these jailbreak tethering apps? I see they are very popular, and pretty much the main reason (after multitasking was introduced in 4.0) to jailbreak... Only, it scares the hell outta me, because pay-as-you-go data rates on AT&T are nightmarish, and if they caught up with you and retroactively charged for even just a couple months of tethering, it could skyrocket your phone bill.

But if nobody ever gets caught, I might try it. I'd certainly use it for web browsing on an iPad if I had one.]]>May 6th 2010 1:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/May 6th 2010 9:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/May 6th 2010 10:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/
Ususally you use a big ego to compensate for small things, but Apple is using small things to back up their big ego. ]]>May 6th 2010 12:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/
These devices are fighting for space as it is so removing a piece of plastic from the internals that does nothing will go far I'd image.

The iPad won't benefit, but I imagine that was motivated by a desire to get Telcos prepared for the iPhone.]]>May 6th 2010 7:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/May 6th 2010 9:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/
well, you pay per 'land line', you pay per internet connection ('per modem')
the cellular equivalent is that you pay per SIM

and just because _you_ won't be using both at the same time doesn't mean noone would consider "sharing" one data plan.]]>May 6th 2010 9:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/
add the "car insurance" example to that .... you won't use both cars at the same time, you pay the insurance for both though.]]>May 6th 2010 9:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/but you get a second car discount not full rate]]>May 6th 2010 10:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/May 6th 2010 10:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-to-create-your-own-micro-sim-card-using-a-chef-knife-and-som/
Car insurance is a lousy example, your car can suffer a total loss, and be parked in your garage. Also, insurance isn't a service in the same way that Internet, Telephone, and Cable are. I don't know about you, but I hope to never have to use my Auto and Homeowners insurance, on the other hand, I use my voice minutes, internet (wired and wireless), and cable (iptv) daily.]]>May 6th 2010 10:48AM