Laptops without PCMCIA ports

By on July 31, 2006 in News

Nttdocomo2402Following on from the post I made this weekend about people who’ve got themselves brand new laptops that don’t have a PCMCIA port for 3g data cards, Rachel sent me details on this product release from a few years ago:

It’s a 3G FOMA compact flash card — fits directly into a compact flash slot. 

I wonder if you could get a USB compact flash reader and then plug this in?  Heh.  Probably *NOT*.   Useful for PocketPCs or anything that has a compact flash capability.

Thanks for pointing this one our Rachel.

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  • http://www.thefuturesperfect.com Rachel

    I thought of this because – The only Dell Laptop I know of (Lattitude X1) that does not have a PCMCIA slot, has a Compact Flash slot.

  • http://invalid.name Dan Lane

    The Register have an article today on Vodafone’s new USB 3G dongle due to ship in the Autumn:
    http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/08/01/vodafone_hsdpa_3g_modem/

    They’ll need to release an ExpressCard version over here before I upgrade my powerbook to a macbook though!

  • Ignacio Velo

    I am from Spain , and I just bought a SAMSUNG Q30 and it doesn´t have a pcmcia slot, It only have some USB and a compact flash slot, so I am not be able to use my 3g pcmcia card, I am trying to find the nett docomo foma card, but it is quite difficuklt to do it. Do you know if exist any other solution to it….. I found an USB adapter for PCMCIA but i think it is not a good solution, because having a 12″ laptop and have to travel with an external adapter, an external dvd , there is to much external …. and finally the almost 1kg for the laptop gets you to 3kg…. So I am trying to optime the compact flash slot for the 3G card ( chip)

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    Thanks for pointing this one our Rachel.

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