| First wireless cards for new Apple laptops |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Thursday, 13 April 2006 | |
  
Mac OSX on PCs floodgates opening and It's a wireless world, but not for Apple and don't miss Apple targets PC giants with Boot Camp iTWire recently questioned Apple's decision to abandon the established PCMCIA standard for the expansion slot on its new Intel-based laptops, the MacBook Pro range, in favour of the new Expresscard/24 format because there were no wireless communications cards available in that format for any network standard. That is about to change. San Diego based-Novatel Wireless has announced the industry's first CDMA 1x EV-DO and WCDMA HSDPA cards in the Expresscard/34 format. The company says it has delivered pre-commercial samples of both and that these are being developed "pursuant to agreements and purchase orders from the company's principal customers - laptop manufacturers and major carriers." These include carriers in Australia. Novatel says its EV-DO ExpressCards are backward compatible with CDMA 1X networks, and the HSDPA ExpressCards are backward compatible with WCDMA networks, allowing uninterrupted use outside of a 3G coverage area. Also see Mac OSX on PCs floodgates opening and It's a wireless world, but not for Apple and don't miss Apple targets PC giants with Boot Camp |
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