Apple Patented Connectors 'SIM Card' Easy Pull

  Never enter the wrong SIM card and difficulty removing it again? With a new type of connector from Apple, it will not happen again.

Unfortunately, perhaps only Apple device that could use this type of connector it. This is because the company concerned has obtained the patent number 8,337,223 on the connector from the Patent and Trademark Office of the United States (USPTO), Tuesday (12/25/2012) then.

Connector, according to the description in the patent, "Allow SIM card is inserted and removed easily using a mechanical lever, and able to prevent the damage from one card inserted."

Types of connectors that can be installed on iPhone, iPad, MacBook Pro, or even the television is able to accommodate a SIM card from a variety of sizes, including the SIM card "regular" Mini-SIM or Micro-SIM.

Apple originally filed the connector to the USPTO in the third quarter of 2010. Three inventors names listed on it is Zheng Gao, Benjamin Rappoport and Seteve McClure.

Quoted from Engadget, Apple's patent on the SIM card connector technology has the potential to inhibit other manufacturers to adopt similar technology because it can be a problem with Apple.

Earlier, in mid-2012, Apple managed to make the design of nano-SIM card is accepted as the standard of his, defeating the design results from Nokia, Motorola Mobility, and RIM.

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