An Islamic SIM card that provides religious functions like tracking the direction of Mecca and prayer times will be showcased in Africa. The Islamic SIM Service was developed by a Greek engineer to enable any basic mobile phone to access Islamic features by swapping SIM cards. It targets the billion users in Africa and Asia with older phones not compatible with apps. The functions aim to meet religious needs affordably where networks don't support smartphones. The developer hopes mobile operators will distribute the SIM in Africa and other regions.

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A new SIM-based application designed to offer a range of
functions to users of even lower end feature phones will be
showcased at Africa Com in Cape Town this week.
The Islamic SIM Service (ISS), designed by Greek electrical
engineer Yiannis Hatzopoulis, enables users to track the
direction of the Kaa’bah, receive accurate prayer timing,
convert dates between Gregorian and Arabic calendars and
automatically ban incoming calls during prayer time.
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The SIM will be showcased at Africa Com in Cape Town from
12 – 14 November.
Hatzopoulis says the Islamic SIM Service is currently under
scrutiny by mobile operators in several countries, but that it
would be premature to speculate on its distribution in Africa.
He says the ISS came about after he noted the success of
LG’s Islamic phones in 2009, and saw a gap in the market for
good Islamic services running on generic feature phones. He
says: “I realised that I could pack most of the functions of an
Islamic phone inside a SIM card, to turn any casual feature
phone into an Islamic phone, simply through the swap of its
SIM card.”
He says he elected to release the functionality in a GSM SIM
rather than a smartphone app, because around a billion GSM
feature phones are in use in Asia and Africa, due to their low
prices, long battery lives and ease of use.
“Also, there are places where the networks have not been
upgraded to 3G, which can support a functional smartphone
with Islamic apps; and in most places prepaid connections
and high churn rates exist. The SIM is cheap, so this type of
product offering could be used as a utility gadget by mobile
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networks, to attract those users that could not really afford
an
Islamic
phone
or
smartphone,
but
would
find
it
convenient to introduce Islamic features in their existing
GSM phones,” says Hatzopoulis.
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