Feb/100
Sagem Orga Developed the World’s First SIM Card with Wi-Fi Embedded
This is just one of those technologies that have been brought up in the form of a “What if” question in many technology-related discussions between most of you and your friends. Now, it is possible, thanks to Sagem Orga, to get a Wi-Fi connection from a simple SIM card. Imagine what this will do to the USB-modem market. Not good, I know.
Sagem Orga will prove the existence of this really great invention during the Mobile World Congress next week and demonstrate how the USIM card with embedded Wi-Fi radio actually works. The world’s smallest hotspot creator should be the name of the SIMFi. What will we do if anybody is able to have a Wi-Fi connection at all times?
“We strongly believe that SIMFi, with its unprecedented functionality for wireless access, will significantly improve the user experience,” explained Remy Cricco, Technology Innovation Manager at Sagem Orga. “If customers can connect their notebooks to the Web anytime and anywhere by simply using what they have with them most of the time and what is the most trusted secure device – the SIM card – adoption can be expected to be enormous.”
Yeah, laptop, UMPC or MID users, for example, are the main targets of SIMFi. The SIM toolkit applets handle the SIMFi’s working system, so there is no need for installation, special software, handset specific configurations or anything. It will simply give you HSPA/W-Fi connection at all times. Activate an access point on the machine you want internet connection on and then Plug and Play comes into play. The producers say that the SIMFi can be inserted in any type of normal phone. What everybody decides to do with this new power is everybody’s business, but please use the limitless connectivity solution by Sagem Orga and Telefonica wisely.