04-25-2003, 01:00 PM
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GPRS/GSM SD Card Turns Your PDA Into A Cell Phone
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9132
"You can take an ordinary Windows PDA and turn it into a true mobile Internet terminal. In addition the [Siemens] CF45 can turn your PDA into a GSM phone for voice calls should you so wish."
Look for availability in Europe around the fourth quarter of 2003 (I think that means June of 2004 in tech speak  ) at a cost of around �270. No specifics were given on the operation of the device, but given that PDA's have very different locations for the SD slot, speaker and mic, I would think to make this universally appealing the SD card would have to have jack for a hands free headset, or better yet, support bluetooth headsets on BT enabled devices.
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04-25-2003, 01:38 PM
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I wonder if they will work out a way to include the Pocket PC Phone Edition bits with it. We've all heard the complaints about the Thera experience, and how cludgy it is compared to PPCPE.
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04-25-2003, 01:48 PM
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Originally Posted by rlobrecht
I wonder if they will work out a way to include the Pocket PC Phone Edition bits with it. We've all heard the complaints about the Thera experience, and how cludgy it is compared to PPCPE.
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I'd be very surprised if they can. Pocket PC Phone Edition is supposed to be an OS-level thing. If anything, this will serve more as a data solution than a phone solution anyway -- I can't imagine the connector for a headset jack to an SD card to be that sturdy in the first place; on the other hand, maybe SDIO has enough bandwidth to talk to the Pocket PC's speakerphone and microphone -- but unfortunately, most Pocket PCs don't have them lined up well enough for phone operation.
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04-25-2003, 03:19 PM
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This is one of several reasons why I think (not that I thought of it myself; someone suggested it in another thread) that there should only be one version of the OS, and it should include all the features of the phone edition. Phone makers or third parties could then make these plug-in modules for GPRS or CDMA that would make the PPC a fully operable phone edition.
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04-25-2003, 03:21 PM
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The iPAQ 5400's do. I'd be interested in this if just to see that I can use my iPAQ as a phone. I don't know that I'd use it as a main phone, but it would be nice to be able to finally use a converged device for that low of a price...
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04-25-2003, 03:48 PM
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Stupid question: Where on earth do you put your SIM in this ? SD cards and the SIM card in your mobile are almost the same size, or am I missing something ?
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Oliver
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04-25-2003, 03:51 PM
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That's because virtually all Pocket PC machines don't have a PCMCIA slot but they do have an SD card interface. So you can take an ordinary Windows PDA and turn it into a true mobile Internet terminal.
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Yea, if it is an SD IO slot
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The CF45's ....[should]..... cost around 270 Euros. Given that Viewsonic sells a PocketPC device for under �200, it should be feasible to create a bundle with the CF45 for under �400
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OHHH, when did the V35 become SDIO capable? :roll:
I've never been real excited by SD peripherals. Just seems that any sort of substantial external stuff would be real prone to snapping off the half inch wide by sixteenth inch plastic tab the slides into the PPC.
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04-25-2003, 04:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Sven
OHHH, when did the V35 become SDIO capable? :roll:
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Since it was released last fall.
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04-25-2003, 04:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Oliver T
Stupid question: Where on earth do you put your SIM in this ? SD cards and the SIM card in your mobile are almost the same size, or am I missing something ?
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Probably in that part that is going to break off :?
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04-25-2003, 04:09 PM
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Really? I didn't know that. I even went to their web site and they don't mention IO, just memory cards. At least I didn't see it on the specs or pdfs. I believe you though. You'd think they'd be real up front with that. It'd be a leg up on the HP 1910 I would think.
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