{"id":542,"date":"2014-01-09T14:21:13","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T12:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bergs.biz\/blog\/?p=542"},"modified":"2014-01-09T14:21:13","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T12:21:13","slug":"sim-card-slot-design-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bergs.biz\/blog\/2014\/01\/09\/sim-card-slot-design-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"SIM Card Slot design issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was recently fooled by a bad design of a SIM Card Slot that fooled me to insert the SIM with a 180\u00b0 wrong orientation.<\/p>\n<p>If you look at the picture below you will probably agree that it&#8217;s easy to get it wrong because the visual design easily makes you believe the angled edge of the SIM card should be at the top. This is also what I thought, but the handset didn&#8217;t recognize the SIM afterwards.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bergs.biz\/blog\/files\/2014\/01\/SIM_card_slot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"SIM_card_slot\" src=\"http:\/\/bergs.biz\/blog\/files\/2014\/01\/SIM_card_slot.jpg\" width=\"523\" height=\"582\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So I had another look and found that I put in the SIM in the wrong direction. 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