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2GMario
3rd March 2004, 07:39 PM
Wondering if anyone has seen this or knows if it exists

now adays, a apple ibook 12 inch is my primary laptop

and ofcourse, the xda 1 cannot connect to a laptop via blue tooth or wifi as a wireless modem

the ibook, lacks any PCMCIA slots for expansion cards, making a gsm pcmcia card out of the question for wireless access over t-mobile

anyone know if theres a gsm usb (or firewire for that matter) adapter that can accept a sim card and act as the usual pcmcia air cards ?

apples also lack serial, parrallel (more or less anything legacy they dont have), so those are out of the question also

its getting to the point where im paying $80 a month for cell phone service ($29.95 for 300 minutes, $20 for tmobile to tmobile , $20 for unlimited data access) , not including another $20 to tmobile for a hotspot account

if i can get a gsm usb adapter, id have my friend (works for tmobile) move my gsm account to a new card, and use that with the laptop, letting me absolve myself from a hotspot acct

any ideas ?

-Mario

Rudegar
4th March 2004, 10:12 AM
it all comes down to supply and demand
if the demand have been great enough to give market to a such device
somebody have payed the RD cost to develop such a device
i would google the hell out of logic search pattarns to see if it give a result
though i doubt that there is such a device myself