SK Telecom crams Android, processor inside a SIM card

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Feb 19, 2010 1:50 PM CST
Good Gear Guide; By Martyn Williams
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The SIM cards in cellular telephones might be smaller than a postage stamp and less than a millimeter thick but that hasn't stopped South Korea's SK Telecom from cramming all the major components needed to run Google's Android OS inside one of them. The carrier's Android SIM, a prototype of which is on show at this week's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, includes an ARM-based processor, companion memory and 1GB of flash memory to store the OS and other data.

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