[miamirulz29]

Originally Posted by Midnightdraven

SIM cards were never, are never and will never be designed to all contact information.
They were made to a) create a link to the network b) to save 1 phone number per name on phones that didnt have internal memory to store phone numbers.

Now they are becomming obsolete (CDMA phones that dont use them).
Its unlikely that GSM will ever be able to get rid of SIM cards completely, but SIM cards are never going to be upgraded to include something that almost all phone now can handle.

There should still be a way to transfer contact information from phone to phone (even non-PDA phones that can't use outlook or w/e) even if it does not use sim cards.

[MidnightDraven]

Originally Posted by NJBlackBerry

SIM cards are becoming obsolete?
Really. Opinion or based on any facts (besides that CDMA carriers have never used them).

Merely opinion.
Yes they are needed in GSM phones, and as I said, I doubt that will ever change.
But in terms of needing to store things on them (phone numbers, text messages) they don't need to be able to do that anymore.

There should still be a way to transfer contact information from phone to phone (even non-PDA phones that can't use outlook or w/e) even if it does not use sim cards.

I just cant see anyone wanting to develop a SIM card that can hold information in any other way than it does now.
It does store numbers, yes one per contact, and yes the BB cannot copy a whole address book to SIM. But other phones can.