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USB EVDO Modem Without PCMCIA

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the implant-it-already dept.

David Ciccone writes to tell us that he got a first look at Sprint's new USB EVDO card. The new USB wireless card can help users connect their non-PCMCIA equipped devices to the Sprint Power Vision Network. Very few details are available for the card, but David was able to capture a few pictures and the couple of speed tests he ran seem halfway decent.

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  1. I have the PCMCIA version but... by erroneus · · Score: 4, Informative

    ...my laptop sees it as two USB serial devices anyway. My guess is that this device is the same as mine but has less hardware. (I use mine under Linux and the machine sees the device as /dev/ttyUSB0 and /dev/ttyUSB1) One of the first questions I asked myself was "why didn't they just make it a USB device?"

    Another responder rightly notes that many phones with a data plan already have the ability to do "internet" for computers via a bluetooth link. Mine does that too. So why do I have a sprint card? My job got it. :) It's good though ... fairly fast though I rarely use it.

  2. You can already do this with an EVDO-enabled phone by Yossarian45793 · · Score: 4, Informative

    I have a RAZR V3c, and Verizon's EVDO service, and I've have been plugging my notebook into my phone using a USB cable for months. The download speed are up to 2 Mbit/s and that's not exaggerating (you do need a strong signal, though).

  3. Re:seems a bit useless by aesiamun · · Score: 5, Informative

    the new intel macbook and macbook pro systems do NOT have a PCMCIA.

    This might be welcomed to people who own these systems.