Right now, Apple has a 24% market share with smartphones, and it has not yet released the iPhone 5 which is anticipated to include LTE, have a larger screen, different form factor and a nano Sim card.

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The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) has confirmed the winning design of the fourth form factor of the SIM card is the design submitted by Apple for the Nano-SIM.

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Any design is a compromise, but the positives in the Nano-SIM design outweigh the negatives.

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Just be prepared to hunt down a new nano-SIM card.

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The pin layout is similar to the existing cards, and a physical adaptor will allow the Nano-SIM to slot into a larger micro or regular SIM slot.

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We're referring to the fight between Apple and a coalition formed by RIM, Motorola and Nokia as each group attempts to make their own nano-SIM design the ETSI standard.

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Now, can someone explain why we need the Nano-SIM?

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So how different can two nano-SIM designs be?

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While not quite as "nano" as the SIM card-sized satellites that launched with the Shuttle Endeavor, the smaller-than-a-breadbox ExoPlanetSat is still pretty tiny by satellite standards, yet it packs all the necessary optics and technology required for what's known as transit observation -- that is, monitoring a star for decreases in brightness, which could indicate a planet passing in front of it.

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