<quote who="Sridhar Dhanapalan"> > These are all issues. I was thinking people would be given a pouch for > the card, or keep the SIM as a full-size card (credit-card size).
That's called a smart card. :-) > I should clarify: this is for millions of people in the developing world. > They won't have computers, phones or any kind of reader. But they will > have access to someone who has a computer that can read/write them. You're likely to find that they *do* have phones (at least, in any market that some kind of smart-card-ish thing would start being relevant). Their phone "minutes" function as micro-currency. - Jeff -- GUADEC 2008: Istanbul, Turkey http://www.guadec.org/ "We must be proactive, eternally vigilant, forever fighting, overwhelmingly clever and handsome." - Robert Love -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html