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Tethering made easy: SIMFi is a SIM card with built-in Wi-Fi router

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12 February, 2010

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Some mobile phones can do Wi-Fi tethering, others need to connect to the PC Suite for Internet sharing and some just can't do it, period. But what if the SIM card in the phone could do it all by itself? Sagem Orga and Telefonica have come up with such a SIM card, dubbed SIMFi.

SIMFi is compatible with existing phones but acts as a Wi-Fi router that any device can connect to. The Wi-Fi gadgetry is integrated into the card itself, but we guess you'd still need a phone with good 3G connectivity to source the data connection in the first place.

More information should be revealed at the MWC next week and hopefully some nagging questions about SIMFi will be answered, like how good a Wi-Fi radio have they managed to fit into the SIM card form-factor and what kind of strain that will put on the phone's battery.

Anyway, this has the potential to become highly popular for customers with solid data plans. Get a SIMFi card with a data plan and you can use it both for your phone and laptop/netbook with no hassle - no moving the card back and forth between the phone and modem or worry about PC Suites or tethering hacks.

HTC HD2 owners are probably smiling right now, their phone came with a Wi-Fi Router app preinstalled. But SIMFi will work on feature phones too, which is a pretty big advantage.

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  • Sammie
  • f3c
  • 25 Sep 2017

Where do I buy it

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  • Anonymous
  • vGg
  • 15 Feb 2010

yo tranchell.. i think you're missing the point here dude.. when i said the sim card is the connection between the phone and the network i don't meant it as a hardware but in terms of identification... i agree on the battery and and the serial connec...

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  • RENICO GROENEWALD
  • ftb
  • 15 Feb 2010

i work in the mobile world and i think this is great but it will take what 10 years before africa get's it like yea bummer we are so behind in some tecno tec's but yea hahahahahaha we look ahead so far behind we are

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