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what's up everyone John rende you're from TechnoBuffalo here let's say you've got your eye on a new iPhone 4 or an ipad 3g but you're on t-mobile or another GSM carrier what are you gonna do the iPad and the iPhone use Micro SIM cards and you want to use your existing SIM how is that going to work well I'm going to show you how so the folks in Negri electronics have once again come through big-time hooked us up with something called the new ce micro sim cutter and adapter so we're going to put this sucker to use something to show you how you can use any sim card you want in an unlocked iPhone 4 or any iPad a lot of people don't know that the ipad 3g actually shifts completely unlocked then you can use it on any GSM carrier you want with any SIM card you just need a SIM card to work so let me show you what this means so I've got an iPhone 4 here in front of me I'm going to go ahead and use the sim removal tool and pop out my micro SIM card to show you the difference and anything will work to pop in that hole right there a paper clip or something to go ahead and pop that out and here we have a micro SIM card it is a very very small SIM card by comparison here is a normal sized AT&T SIM card you can see the difference it's quite big but if you'll notice the contact point so the parts that are sort of look gold are exactly the same on each device so why did Apple decide to go ahead and make these micro Sims perhaps it's make it more difficult to switch phones we're going to go ahead and fix that for you let's say you just bought an unlocked or iPhone 4 on eBay or Craigslist and you want to use your existing SIM card not having to go to AT&T or t-mobile wherever you might be this is what you're going to need to do so go ahead and push all this off the side for a minute so go ahead and open up the micro sim cutter here and I'll put a link down below to the folks at Negri in case you want to check this out or pick one up for yourself so it looks like a big hole punch they'll push that in and we've got two SIM card adaptors but you're going to need as well so I'll show you how that works in just a moment so push the packaging off so you need to be careful so what sort of SIM card you're going to use some kid SIM cards are very easy to be cut so here's the AT&T one let's take a look at a current t-mobile SIM card and you'll notice that they look different on the back the contact points here are much larger than they are on the 18 t version so you're going to need to either find an older SIM card that's smaller t-mobile seems to have made their contact points a bit larger so have to hunt to find a SIM card even if it's not activated you can call your carrier and have them activate that sim for you so assuming you found one that works I'm going to go and show you how to cut it pretty simple we're going to go and take this handy sim cutter and it looks relatively straightforward so we're going to take this 18 T SIM card right here and look at the bottom you can sort of see how things are supposed to go going to take this and slide it right in and then you have pretty much just punch and it pops out and I now have a brand new Micro SIM card sort of left the remnants in there this part pushed right through it comes through a quite a bit of aggression if you pull that out there's the hole and you could almost use this as an adapter sort of try and fit it back in maybe a piece of tape on the front but assuming you don't want to do that or the tapes not going to work here's what else is including this package these are micro SIM card adapters so all you do is you take your new micro SIM or your existing micro SIM from your iPhone 4 or iPad pop it right in and go ahead and throw it into any unlock device you want or any lock device if it's secure that that supports so I've got a nexus one right here if you just pull off the battery you can now pop the SIM card in to any phone just as you would a normal sized SIM it actually works really well which is kind of cool so you sort of get around these sort of micro sim limitations and that would just pop right in you got to make sure the SIM cards in there nice and tight because it can as you just saw pop out it's really got to sort of hold it in as you're pushing it into the phone so here is the just made micro sim that we just created and here is the one that came with my iPhone you can see that they look almost identical a bit of a difference there but the contact points are just about the same so what if you use a SIM card that's not going to be supported so let's say here's that t-mobile SIM when you're talking about with the bit contact points what's going to happen well just for the sake of it I'm going to show you us we're going to go ahead and punch this guy as well and I want to show you so you can avoid this problem time to go ahead and push it right in all right so there it is you can sort of see that it's going to punch out some areas so we'll go ahead may want to plug your ears it gets a bit loud and we're going to go ahead and punch and now we are left with a micro-sim now you can see that actually cut off a bit of the side now in some instances it may still work but more often not you're going to be stuck with a non functioning SIM card that's not going to work for you you just need to be careful sometimes you're going to work sometimes it might not but you'll now be able to take your just cut sim card and pop it into any unlocked iPhone or any ipad 3g and use your data plan with it so it's sort of a way to get around those regulations are really handy and sort of gives you the freedom that you used to have with swapping SIM cards as a tech reviewer like myself I sort of have to have the ability to swap SIM cards and now I have that once again with these micro sim adapters very cool and really easy to to use so anyway guys I'm John rhett endure from TechnoBuffalo be sure to check out the website for all your tech news and I will see you in the next video bye bye