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Apple Starts 2014 With a Micro SIM Smart Card Patent

On December 31, 2013, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published series of 43 new patents to Apple. Among those patents, the most noteworthy was the one for micro SIM smart card, which reveals Apple’s plans to get this SIM card standard even after winning permissions for a different standard despite protests by Nokia.

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More than a year-and-a-half has passed since Nokia and Apple battle over the future SIM cards for mobile phones. Despite Apple winning this war, thanks to European Telecommunications Standards Institute’s approval, Cupertino giant is all set make changes.

Patently Apple states,

In one variant, the first substrate is compliant with a Mini-SIM physical specification. In other variants, the first substrate is compliant with a Micro-SIM physical specification.

They say that Apple is changing the dimensions once again for its micro SIM 3GG card for which it just won a patent. Apple credits Tang Tan, Jason Sloey, Jared Kole, and Naushad Zaveri as the investors of its patent which was originally filed in Q2 2012.

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Atom Merifield Benchmarks Leaked

Benchmarks of a prototype Intel Atom Merifield processor has surfaced on NenaMark’s website. Slated to be used in phones, this Salt Bay phone runs Android 4.3 operating system; has 4.3 inch display with a resolution of 1280×800 (720p) and Power VR SGX 6 GPU.

The Atom Merifield is successor to the Atom Z2610 chip. Latter was not as efficient as top of the line ARM CPUs (think Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 / 800) and missed built in LTE support.

Atom Merifield promises to solve these problems by offering a chip with built in LTE, thanks to integrated XMM1760 modem.

Specs of this device include a dual core / quad core processor, 2.1 GHz clock frequency. In the Nenamark 2 benchmark test, the CPU got scores between 56.7 – 58.3 FPS (frames per second). [via tuttoandroid]

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MODECOM FreeTAB 1010 IPS IC Windows 8 Tablet Specs Price

MODECOM has rolled out a Windows 8 tablet called FreeTAB 1010 IPS IC that boasts the new dual core Intel Celeron N2805 1.46 GHz processor. Suggest retail price is a bit steep though – USD 999.

Other specs include Intel HD graphics, 2 gigabytes of DDR3 RAM, 10.1 inch display with IPS technology with a resolution of 1280×800 pixels. Storage is provided by its 32 GB SSD which is expandable via micro SD card slot.

MODECOM FreeTAB 1010 IPS IC Windows 8 Tablet Specs Price

Rest of its specs include 802.11n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, digital compass, micro USB port with OTG support, HDMI 1.4, 2 megapixel rear camera, 2 megapixel front webcam, and a battery of 7000 mAh.

MODECOM FreeTAB 1010 IPS IC Windows 8 Tablet review

MODECOM FreeTAB 1010 IPS IC Windows 8 Tablet measures 259 x 173 x 9.9 mm. The box includes a keyboard as well.