A Blighty bloke has come up with a novel way of getting his iPad
3G 64 GB working on a British network by taking a cleaver to it. John
Benson's shiny new iPad 3G 64GB arrived from the USA but the only
problem was that it had an AT&T MicroSIM and there no such thing in
the UK.
Writing in his
blog
Benson somehow hit on the idea of taking a Vodaphone SIM card, a
chopping board, a meat cleaver and a pair of scissors and converting it
to a "microSIM". He worked out that while the MicroSIM and the SIM look
very different the only things that matter are the contacts which are
common to both.
"Electronically, the SIM and MicroSIM are the same so we can cut the
rest away and not worry (so long as we are careful)," he wrote.
To begin with, line up the three contact on the MicroSIM with the same
ones on the SIM card. You can just look for the 2 centre lines and make
sure they are in line and that the top of the MicroSIM is straight.
Then get your meat cleaver and press down gently to score a straight
line.
It is apparently easy, although you do need a responsible adult
to help with the scissors.