3G Internet Access Via PCMCIA Card

An anonymous reader writes "Found this on a European site. It's a PCMCIA card that connects you to the internet over a 3G network. With a download rate of 384kb/sec, it's close to broadband speed, and it works wherever there's network coverage. If you're tired of searching for a WiFi hotspot when you need one, this could be the answer."

Comments

Re:Why always somewhere else?

[Tezkah]

My 12" Averatec laptop has a PCMIA port, but thats not really a subnotebook.

Get real...

[Hamster Lover]

It's Kraft Dinner and the movie is Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer

Re: Subnotebooks

[billstewart]

My Hitachi Visionbook Traveller weighs 2.7 pounds (about 1.2kg) and has a ~10" screen, and it was what passed for a cheap subnotebook back in its day, and it has three PCMCIA card slots, two of which are aligned so you can use a fat-form-factor PCMCIA disk if you want.

Alas, like many lightweight machines, part of the lightness was because of flimsy construction, so it's gradually fallen apart, and you can no longer buy critical parts like the little plastic doors that hold in the batteries. (Too bad - it's sensibly designed to use standard video-camera batteries, so they'd be replaceable at a quasi-rational price if the silly doors weren't missing.) That all became less relevant when the screen cracked, so the machine now looks like a nice little keyboard that has VGA and Ethernet interfaces instead of PS2.

Re:maximize profit, not maximize quality of life

[Brandybuck]

Why, in a couple of minutes, some rightwinger will reply to this post, telling us how good we have it...compared to the 3rd worlders.

You're right. Anyone who thinks the US is better off than the 3rd world can only be a rightwinger...