The carriers say they want to encrypt and store the credentials in the phone's SIM card, the small chips placed in the back of phones to activate access to mobile networks.
That chin is removable, and hides the phone's SIM and microSD card slots (this might be a good time to remind everyone that you won't find a memory card reader on the 8X).
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Burnside Telecom in the UK has come up with a solution for at least some customers, in the form of the Desktop Mobile Pathfinder, a box that connects to your landline and holds your cellphone's SIM card.
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In what could be easily construed as a preemptive strike against Apple legal, Creative's Sim Wong Hoo has gone on record stating that they will "pursue aggressively" companies that are infringing on their patent for a media player interface.
Wireless carriers in Italy have started going after vendors who unlock cellphones (so they can be used with a competitor's SIM card) with a vengeance, with a recent sweep resulting in 30 people being charged with such crimes as unlawful access to informatic systems and transmisson of illegal codes.
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These features are also supported with the GALAXY Core's Dual SIM technology, enabling users to access both SIM cards simultaneously.
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This is especially frustrating with the iPhone 4S because the Verizon software, with its locked U.S. SIM card, prevents access to other carriers in manual mode to get around this issue.
Other entries included team Eco's Climate Sim, which sees the player taking control of a farmer who has to balance his day-to-day energy and water needs with the growth of his crops and the environmental impact of his actions.
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The new Duet D888 option let's you mix up one of Cellular Abroad's roaming SIM along with a second of your own, so theoretically, you could make this your primary phone if you do a lot of traveling and hate breaking your fingernails (or your will to live) every time you want to swap cards between phones.
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Unlike some of its premium stablemates, the VX utilizes a removable back cover that provides access to the phone's micro-SIM and microSD card slots.
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Now, a slightly less capable handset -- the Liquid Gallant Solo -- has reared its head, and as you might expect, it's a single SIM affair.
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On the other hand, the crux of the prosecution's closing argument is actually out of its hands--it rests, rather, with Judge Sim Lake's "charges of law" to the jury.
Three people from last year's list missed the cut, including Sim Wong Hoo, whose Creative Technology's iPod-type player lost ground to Apple's popular iPod.
The Note 8.0's back is non-removable, but that bit's rendered moot by the accessibility of the microSD and micro-SIM slots on the tablet's left edge and a sealed 4, 600mAh battery.
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Like the E1, it's available with one or two SIM cards, and you have your choice of a 3-megapixel or 5-MP camera.
The suspects were making inquiries about Filin's schedule and whereabouts and bought SIM cards for mobile phones registered under fake names, police said.
Volumes were buoyed by the sales of Nokia's low-end dual-SIM models in emerging markets like Southeast Asia, but were a little soft overall, as initial shipments of Microsoft Lumia phones could not offset declining Symbian sales.
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Eric Sim, the club's secretary said it was a matter of principle, rather than the amount involved, though there was concern that the sum could rise over the next few years.
On the bottom edge is a trick flap that's both a micro-USB socket and a USB Type A plug depending on how it's positioned -- the micro-SIM slot is cleverly hidden behind it.
Above this, and centered just beneath the display, is Lenovo's logo, while the 3.5mm headphone jack, mini-HDMI and covered dummy SIM slot (barren for US models) occupy the tablet's left.
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Sure, there were gasps from the crowd at last week's Unpacked, but built-in 4G makes perfect sense, and while WiFi and a Micro SIM may make the Galaxy Camera an instant winner, it's Android that completes the package, as the glue that cements this latest category's promise.
There's also a memory card reader, a SIM slot for quad-band 3G (WCDMA) and Bluetooth 4.0, in case you want to pair it with any wireless peripherals.
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So given the choice (and assuming they cost the same), it's either the M1 with its dual-SIM capability but qHD display, or the Q1 with the 720p display but with just one SIM slot.
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We guess that makes sense since it has to fit into a standard SIM slot, but it's rocket science how they managed to fit all that circuitry into a board that tiny -- in fact, we were shown an x-ray view of the card, and the number of chips, resistors, and miscellaneous pieces of technology in there is nothing short of mind-bending.
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On several occasions during proceedings, Judge Sim Lake soundly rejected the defense's highly technical objections.
Its sister, the Nokia Asha 306, is a single SIM model, and becomes Nokia's most affordable Wi-Fi handset to date.
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The rear, made in part from soft plastic, covers slots for the microSD and SIM (not micro-SIM) slots, but there's no battery access.
Finally, Japan gets the stiffest deal of all with iPads there officially confirmed to be SIM-locked to Softbank Mobile's network, something that has already earned plenty of ire from the local populace.
Finally, Bloomberg says (and our own sources have corroborated) that Apple's working on a so-called "Universal SIM" technology that would eliminate physical SIMs altogether and make using the iPhone on different networks a simple matter of provisioning, not unlike American CDMA networks today.
But despite that, it took a big hit from Sony's "Gran Turismo, " probably the greatest racing sim the PSX had seen.
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