The document discusses the development of a SIM card designed for Muslims. It was created by a Greek engineer to address the lack of Islamic prayer and worship features available on basic cell phones in Asia and Africa. The SIM card allows users to track the direction of Mecca for prayers, receive accurate prayer times, and convert calendars. It aims to provide these functions for over 1 billion feature phones that cannot install apps. The SIM card has been showcased and its wider availability is hoped to come soon.

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I’m not a religious nor a spiritual person so when I read some
headlines involving religion I don’t have much of an opinion. But being a
person with Samsung Ch@t 222 that among other features has this Gibla
direction under Apps that up until now has remained a msytery, I thought
that SIM card for Muslims is worth my attention. Google has since then
informed me that Gibla is “the direction of the Kaaba (the sacred building at
Mecca), to which Muslims turn at prayer.”
I understand that when Muslims pray, they do so facing the sacred building
at Mecca. This however might be very hard to achieve especially when a
Muslim finds himself in new territory. To help them work around this
predicament, a number of phone manufacturers like LG, Samsung and any
other have been incorporated in their devices features for providing Gilba
direction and other Islamic useful tools like determining prayer times.
Smartphones also have numerous apps that can be downloaded to help
provide the Islamic functionalities.
But Yiannis Hatzopoulis, a Greek
Engineer, thought about all the
solutions available in the market for
Muslims and still felt that these are
not enough. He reasoned that most
Muslims in Asia and Africa have
more than 1 billion feature phones
that do not have the Islamic
features and cannot have these
features installed as they do not
have smartphones. To solve this, he
came up with the idea of designing
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an Islamic SIM Service (ISS) that will
enable 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.
Hatzopoulis defended his idea of SIM card for Muslims saying that in most
place in Africa and Asia, there isn’t enough coverage of 3G network that would
support seamless functionality of apps so smartphone users still need the cheap
alternative in a SIM card for Muslims. The SIM card has since been show cased
in Cape Town. Hopefully mass availability of the SIM card will be sooner than
later.
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Washington Odipo is the Managing Editor at Kachwanya.com.
When not blogging Washington indulges in other tech businesses,
playing chess, being with his family, and traveling. He is a trained
Food Technologist and Researcher with experience in Sugar
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