How do i shop sim cards for their memory capacities?

[MrDaniel]

I'm told that if I put a sim card into my ASUS phonetab that it will provide my android os with some ram and some sd flash memory capacity.

Reading up, it seems some of this is true, however, I cant fathom any way to find specs on these things as I shop around. Who commonly lists these sim card specs? how do I do searches for it? searches always bomb with "lte" jargon and monthly gigabyte rates.

some of these supposedly have up to 64gb of memory in them yet there's no intuitive way to clearly search for it without heaps of google bomb to dig through.

anyone have any advice?

 

[UsandThem]

You just look at the specs of your device on Asus. If this is your device:

https://www.asus.com/Phone/ASUS_Fonepad/specifications/

It says it takes micro SD cards up to 32GB, so something like this should work fine:

https://www.amazon.com/Sandisk-Ultr...nements=p_n_feature_two_browse-bin:6518304011

Also, it just provides extra storage space, not RAM. That is fixed at 1GB.

 

[XavierMace]

No, a sim card will not provide your Android OS with RAM or flash memory capacity. A sim card technically has a small amount of storage on it for storing your carrier info, your phone contacts, and a few other tidbits.

A MicroSD card will increase your storage capacity, but as @UsandThem stated it will not increase your RAM either.

 

[MrDaniel]

Well there's a lot of miscommunication and misinformation then. I can find several tech reporting sites that specify otherwise, claiming substantial SIM card memory. I will try to cite the ones I read.

 

[MrDaniel]

http://www.three.co.uk/hub/sim-card-answers/
Number 7

http://www.ebay.co.uk/gds/How-Much-Memory-Is-Available-on-SIM-Cards-/10000000177629446/g.html
Several places, tho doesn't exactly say how

https://www.lifewire.com/what-are-sim-cards-577532
Here it also admits different cards do in fact have differing capacities

https://www.quora.com/How-many-contacts-can-I-save-on-my-SIM-card
Just do find on page search "memory"

There's no real reason at all to suspect something you put into your most prized possession isn't holding huge chunks of data they you're not even aware could be there.

 

[UsandThem]

None of those sites you cited are what I would call "reliable" or "accurate". You don't have to take our word for it.

A sim card is used for your account/phone number, and for a phone to be able to communicate with towers/satellites. A micro SD card is storage. Nothing more, nothing less. On top of that, phones (and much like computers) have RAM. While upgrading RAM in computers is usually easy, on cell phones it's fixed. So your phone came with 1 GB of memory, and that's all it will ever have until you get a different phone.

 

[dlerious]

http://www.three.co.uk/hub/sim-card-answers/
Number 7

Right there in the first sentence, they tell you a SIM has 64 kilobytes of memory. The last paragraph doesn't do a very good job of letting you know they're talking about internal memory or external storage.

 

[VirtualLarry]

SIM cards DO have "storage" capacity, but that's not their primary goal, per se, and generally not clearly documented. They can be used to store phone numbers / phone books, and SMS texts. I am unaware if they can be used for MMS picture text storage.

I've never seen a SIM card's storage capacity be a consideration, though. Generally, you get a SIM from your chosen cell carrier, and you get what you get. The only choice I've seen, is micro, nano, or regular sim size. Some SIMs come with plastic spacer punch-outs to fit any of those three sizes.

 

[richaron]

Well there's a lot of miscommunication and misinformation then. I can find several tech reporting sites that specify otherwise, claiming substantial SIM card memory. I will try to cite the ones I read.

Doubling the number of contacts on a SIM card can be considered "substantial" SIM card memory, and this was significant around the turn of the century. But this amount of memory is absolutely insignificant compared to "memory" used in a phone, and the memory in a SIM card is not it's primary purpose. The SIM card has a fraction of the memory necessary to store a single modern photo. And many orders of magnitude less memory than RAM or flash storage on a modern phone.

OP has confused antiquated concerns of different storage capacities on a SIM card and different physical sizes of SIM cards VS similarly "sized" microSD cards and their range of useful "sizes" (storage capacities).

 

[MrDaniel]

Dunno but i do know the "Smart" company in the philippines has 1gig mem sim cards and those are 60php ea. 64kp is just what we're typically trolled too here. And, how much of that is just subjective partitioning, i think no one knows.

60php=$1.15

One of those cites i made could just be a confabulation, but i'd argue otherwise given the complete lack of reason to assume a sim's capacity couldn't match a low end sd. being that it's a virtually unsearchable field, i'm suspicious.

 

[UsandThem]

Dunno but i do know the "Smart" company in the philippines has 1gig mem sim cards and those are 60php ea. 64kp is just what we're typically trolled too here. And, how much of that is just subjective partitioning, i think no one knows.

60php=$1.15

One of those cites i made could just be a confabulation, but i'd argue otherwise given the complete lack of reason to assume a sim's capacity couldn't match a low end sd. being that it's a virtually unsearchable field, i'm suspicious.

Buy one, and let us know how it works out for you.

 

[DaveSimmons]

You should explain why you want this instead of a 32 GB mcroSD card.

 

[XavierMace]

Dunno but i do know the "Smart" company in the philippines has 1gig mem sim cards and those are 60php ea. 64kp is just what we're typically trolled too here. And, how much of that is just subjective partitioning, i think no one knows.

60php=$1.15

One of those cites i made could just be a confabulation, but i'd argue otherwise given the complete lack of reason to assume a sim's capacity couldn't match a low end sd. being that it's a virtually unsearchable field, i'm suspicious.

Wait, are you talking pre-paid SIM cards? If so, that 1Gb they're advertising is the total amount of cell data you can use before it shuts off.

That's still not RAM nor device storage. It would be helpful if you linked us to the product you're actually looking at.