re: Nokia D211 PCMCIA card
More HSCSD and more than HSCSD.
A REALLY versatile PC Card that even looks good:
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Nobodies crying "God Send Mobiles", anymore.
- up to 40.2 Kbps in a GPRS environment
- up to 43.2 Kbps in a HSCSD environment
- up to 11 Mbps in a 802.11b compliant WLAN environment
WHAT! No Bluetooth and no 1900 MHz band?
>> 3-Way Wireless From Nokia
Jørgen Sundgot
infoSynch
22.02.02
Nokia has announced their D211 PCMCIA card, which offers GPRS, HSCSD and Wireless LAN in one card, making sure that wherever you might be, you can connect at optimum speed.
Many companies are nowadays setting up Wireless LAN networks in the offices which are far cheaper to set up than putting wires everywhere. For making getting a conference room wired, you either needs tens of meters of cable, or one wireless access point. Nokia already had a wireless LAN card, but problems appear when you move out of the office but still want to be connected to the Intranet over a VPN connection. To overcome this problem, Nokia combined dual-band GSM 900/1800 MHz, HSCSD, GPRS and Wireless LAN in one single card; "Connecting People" - here we come.
Nokia's new D211 3-way wireless card should be just about perfect for corporate users - or for those who just want to be connected, anytime and anywhere
The Nokia D211 PCMCIA Type II card is one of the first aimed at providing corporate users with a true "always-on" Internet access, in relation to what Nokia and other companies are working on in terms of Mobile IP, which eventually will allow for seamless roaming between various IP based networks such as WLAN, GSM, HSCSD, GPRS and UMTS.
The Nokia D211 is compatible with a wide range of portable devices that incorporate type II or III PC card slots with sufficient power supply, and supports Windows 98 SE, Me, 2000, XP, Windows CE 3.0 and Linux environments. An emphasis should be made here on the fact that it supports Windows CE 3.0 by Microsoft, a clear competitor. For corporate users, the Nokia D211 together with VPN offers a secure and reliable way to access company confidential information.
The configuration of the card can be managed from the graphical user interface, with data transmission rates of up to 40.2 Kbps in a GPRS environment, up to 43.2 Kbps in a HSCSD environment, and up to 11 Mbps in a wireless LAN environment (802.11b compliant).
Unfortunately, Nokia did not disclose any pricing information, but said the card will be available in the second quarter of 2002, which on a whole looks to become a killer quarter for Nokia with several new and advanced devices lined up for arrival. <<
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