BeatB, you may have seen earlier in the thread that we mentioned that the 7510 has a similar unpopulated area on the board where the Sim reader is attached. At the very least you will be in a similar boat as to what we are looking into here, for certain the connector as it is not present, most likely the nearby circuit, and write possibly other component changes in other undetermined locations to support the cellular radio. Probably possible, but most likely cheaper to sell what you have and buy the tab you are after. I am a huge proponent of DIY, but I think in your scenario the risk far outweighs the benefits.
zooster, thank you for the new pm, the link worked. I have just had a few minutes while at work to glance at the service manual, however, i did see that in the section on level 2 repair, all the pictures show a Tab that while missing the sd card holder, still has all the component locations for it populated. The bad news is that none of the photos are high resolution. It does have me wondering though if the launch version 3g tabs were populated. If so, we need to get word out and to have people look, at best, this might be plug and play for them, at the least maybe they can help us on hardware and someone smart can look into software???
At any rate i have my fingers crossed. I'll share whatever else i stumble across as time permits.
Later,
Jason
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