Not necessarily. I’d call your local mobile dealer and ask if they can provide you with a nano SIM. They may be able to get you one for a small cost.
I believe the same thing happened with the iPhone 4 and its micro-SIM when it was first released.
I only heard news that LTE will come out in China next year. It seems there’s a bit of political issue in getting LTE licensed in Taiwan and it just doesn’t look like it’s coming in the near future (read: for several years).
As for nano sims, will you be able to get the phone company to provide you with a nano sim if its a prepaid card, or do you have to have a real contract?
The iPhone 5 has some other non LTE upgrades included such as HSPA+ - not sure if those are supported in Taiwan or not. It also has upgraded WiFi, so depending on what kind of router you have, you may see some improvements there as well.
This is the type of thing that you’ll have to inquire at your local mobile store. It’s also the type of thing that you’ll probably get a different answer from, each time you talk to someone new there, depending on their knowledge level. So if you don’t like the answer you hear, just ask a different person or at a different shop. The answers will be more clear, the closer it is to coming out in Taiwan, since carriers will need to plot their nano SIM strategy by then.
There is mini-USB, micro-USB … all available … for cheap!
This is how much better the iPhone 5 is … it’s a big thing!
Jimmy Kimmel Live - First Look: iPhone 5 showing people and old iPhone telling them it’s the new 5 … seriously, they don’t even see and feel the difference?
I dont think iPhone 5 will be that much of a big thing. They hype up a new release everytime but only change small things.
iPhone 5 smashes sales records
2 million preorders were placed on Friday.
This seems to be an annual ritual. Media pans Apple for releasing another “boring” iPhone without much innovation. And yet they continue to smash sales records.
It would be interesting if Apple were to market & then release an iPhone that was heavier, thicker and slightly worse than its predecessors.
I suspect they’d still get a whole bunch of orders.
They kind of did that with the new iPad. It needed to be thicker, heavier and have a longer recharge time to support the retina screen on it.
I won’t be buying, but I wonder if the wife will. She’s on iPhone something, and the way it works here is that when she upgrades, I upgrade too with her throwaway.
I can’t be that far away from ditching my 10 year old Nokia :discodance:.
Welcome to the 21st Century! 
Technically that phone was also the 21st century , just to be a pain in the arse 
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I want one soon. Like in " who can buy me a carrier unlocked one and bring it back toTaiwan?" - yesterday? 
Icon? Still in the US 
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The nano-SIM. Not only is it smaller, it’s also thinner. 12 percent thinner, in fact, down from 0.76 mm to 0.67 mm.
Good luck putting your old SIM in! Unless you’ve gotten a new one from your carrier here, and if so which carrier and how?
Even if it did fit, the lightening connector does not have analog audio out.. uses USB/digital audio.. so nothing for the adapter to adapt.. same with Analog video out.. no more ability to connect video out from your iphone/itouch to your TV using one of those video adapters so you can watch iTunes content on a big screen.. of course you could purchase an AppleTV unit and use AirPlay..
The lightning port DOES support audio / video out. It’s just that the current adapters that Apple sell don’t support this feature. I’m sure there will be all sorts of adapters and cables coming out over the next little while to support this and other functions.
Updated.
Dig around in the closet see if the battery still works.
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I was convinced that if anyone was gonna resurrect this thread, it’d be @MalcolmReynolds
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Renewing expiring certificates is hardly a “software update”. But good on them for keeping the old iPhones functional.
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