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this episode of techno Buffalo's brought to you by Netflix thank you guys for tuning in this is renters rancis the show where I rant and rave from anything in the world of technology I'm her host John Retton it up this week we're talking city cards nano sim micro sim regular sim too many to keep track of it makes it impossible to know which one goes in which phone what adapters you're gonna need let's go ahead and get ready so before the iPhone 4 launched really had one SIM card size it was standard it was used in every phone and I made those GSM folks happy i SIM card is what's used in GSM phone so in the u.s. I'd be AT&T and t-mobile to put all your phone number on essentially it was your phone on a card you could take that SIM you could pop into any phone and suddenly your phone number was on there so now any carrier that has an LTE network uses a SIM card but back then it was only those two and life was simple review phones you're a TechnoBuffalo and ever I want to try a new phone I'd pop up my sim card on put it a new phone and I was good to go then the iPhone 4 came along and Apple said you know what we want to save room we're gonna create a micro sim it's got the same sized contacts as regular size SIM card we're cutting out the plastic we want to make sure every millimeter micrometer nano meter is used economically okay fine we got it Micro SIM became the standard for most phones it was adopted by Samsung it was adopted by Nokia adopted by HTC and that was just a new standard it was great everything was fine with the world you could pop it a micro sim in any phone if you wanted to use an adapter you could do so there were sim cards available all you had to do was take a SIM card and a regular sized SIM cut it and hiki's that regular size SIM hole as an adapter and everything worked out perfectly then Apple said you know what we want to save a few more millimeters that were gonna create nano Sims with the iPhone 5 make it nearly impossible to take your sim card from an iPhone 5 and put it directly into another phone you need to get another kind of adapter and I understood the move from regular sim to micro Sims there's a decent amount of plastic and wasted space on that SIM card but going from micro to nano is really a matter of millimeters and seems to do thing more than make it difficult for people to go from an iPhone to another device but there's a way around it you can pick up any myriad of adapters we got to make sure you're getting the right one that goes from nano to micro or what if you have an older phone then you got to go from nano to regular it becomes a frustrating mess and in this industry when we test a ton of phones you never know what simcards gonna be in each device let's get a standard let's agree on one and stick with it I don't care if my phone is that much thicker that much wider so you have to have different sized SIM cards I don't think this was an issue of Apple trying to save space like I did with the move from regular to micro I think this is just them trying to make things difficult so maybe nanos gonna be coming under standard that will go micro nano or maybe they'll create a new sim standard so I can't work with Apple phones and you can never switch SIM cards another device this is problematic though if you're traveling I imagine you take your iPhone 5 and you want to go abroad to Europe South America Middle East Africa Antarctica Australia there's some other continents South Central America that's not a Content but it become quite difficult if carriers don't have an iPhone there you're gonna be out of luck you can't get a nano SIM you're gonna have to get a some sort of cutter bring it with you pick the SIM card and put it in then you have curious like t-mobile it don't have the iPhone if you're still offering micro Sims the whole world the SIM cards blows my mind and makes me crazy mad I know it's a tiny little thing everyone's gonna say firstworldproblems all that kind of business but it is really annoying and it's another sign of Apple getting more and more proprietary what do you guys think of my way off-base my cranky old man or do you agree Jake trying to buy adapter to keep tracking different phones if you switched phones quite frequently you'll know exactly what I'm talking about it is maddening so we think it made it talked about something that's not maddening something that's incredibly easy our friends and sponsors at Netflix Netflix streamed TV shows and movies directly to your home saving you time money and hassles and Netflix unlimited member you can instantly watch TV episodes and 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in the rest of the world I'm John Rhett enger' thanks for watching check us out at TechnoBuffalo calm for ladies and greatest tech news I'll see you next video