Intersil to release 802.11b SD card

[Ed Hansberry]

<a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=73&e=4&cid=73&u=/zd/20020710/tc_zd/942655">http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=73&e=4&cid=73&u=/zd/20020710/tc_zd/942655</a><br /><br />"The wireless equipment maker announced on Tuesday that it is working with SyChip to incorporate 802.11b wireless networking technology into a Secure Digital (SD) card for handheld devices." Don't look for anything this year though. I would guess first quarter of next year before you could order one.<br /><br />Intersil is also working to reduce the power requirements of 802.11b. Right now, those requirements are pretty hefty and can drain most Pocket PC's in an hour or so. Source: JonnoB

[ChrisD]

Caveat Emptor. the SD slot in the Pocket PCs can not keep up with 11 megabits. It's rated at 2 megabits so be careful if you are considering this as an option. Also, be aware that not all SD slots are SDIO compatible!

In theory a slot can be 10 megabits however the Pocket PC vendors would have to support 4 SD address lines instead of 1 in hardware.

[Dave Conger]

So this would also play into the Bluetooth 2.0 spec. If we get Bluetooth SD cards that run up to 12 megabits, we will really only get 2 megabits of through put? Sounds like hardware manufatures need to do a little upgrade in their next gen. devices.

[Will T Smith]

Beyond the I/O capacity of the sd slot one must consider your ability to process data.

Exactly WHAT?? are you going to do with a 10 MegBit/sec connection on a PocketPC. Transferring data at that rate you'll either run out of memory or overwhelm your processing capacity.

BTW, desspite recent software releases, PocketPC is a server non-starter. No web hosting or FTP serving on PocketPC. :twisted:

[Ed Hansberry]

Exactly WHAT?? are you going to do with a 10 MegBit/sec connection on a PocketPC. Transferring data at that rate you'll either run out of memory or overwhelm your processing capacity.

BTW, desspite recent software releases, PocketPC is a server non-starter. No web hosting or FTP serving on PocketPC. :twisted:
CedeFTP has an FTP server for Pocket PCs - posted here last week by Andy. There are web servers too.

The 206MHz StrongARM can easily keep up with a 10MB connection. Depends on what the data stream is as to whether or not it can keep up processing that data. Would be good for video or cd-quality audio.