I'm planning to sell a special WiFi card for MobilePro 900
(C
), Jornada 710/720/728, and other H/PCs. See the pictures below to understand what makes it special!
This card has a removable planar antenna part, but I'll add an additional wire antenna to make it look and work like a built-in WiFi card. This means you can use either the planar antenna or wire antenna. My feeling is people will use the wire antenna in most cases---That is the objective I'm striving to achieve.
Another special feature of the card is it's 2.5mm shorter than the shortest card I have ever known. So, with the wire antenna installed, the protrusion from MP900
(C
) is ONLY 2mm that is less than half of the connector size
(4.5mm
). I believe other cards with external antenna
(s
) will have at least 4.5mm protrusion and it would be impractical to leave the antenna there during daily use and carrying.
I was able to insert part of the wire antenna into an empty area inside MP900C
(it's a little bit tight. trimming the plastic edge of the slot should help. You may have a better way if you think really hard.
) and use WiFi at a decent distance from the router.
On J720, taping the antenna along the smart card slot is a solution.
The card has very good build quality though it's factory's old stock. The brand is Contec. Contec does provide official drivers for CE 2.11 and 3.0. I used PRISMNDS.dll for CE .NET 4.2.
The all-inclusive price is $30 for US buyers and $35 for others. Lead time is around 3 weeks.
PM me if you are interested. I can also test it on J690 with Donkey and J720 with Mongo and Skeye.pad SL with CE .NET 4.2.
Edited by CAuser 2008-01-25 1:55 AM
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