Mobile phone group, Orange, is set to massively increase the amount of data you can store on a mobile phone SIM card.

Later this year the company plans to launch a card capable of storing 512MB, 8,000 times more than is possible on today’s SIMs.

The additional storage capabilities on such ‘Mega-SIMs’ could help phone companies turn regular phones in multimedia warehouses.

A 512-megabyte MegaSIM could store up to 130 songs, three movies or 80 games, compared with existing 64 kilobyte cards which could at best store a phone book and some text messages.

The cards are the result of a collaboration with M-systems, Oberthur Card Systems and LG Electronics.

The new SIM cards could potentially impact on the market for additional storage cards fitted into external slots on multimedia handheld devices.