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    Dell to offer Certified Wireless USB in the Inspiron 1720

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by BigEmpty, Jul 23, 2007.

  1. BigEmpty

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    http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,134989-pg,1/article.html

    Article says sometime at the end of August, early September for the 1720.

    I wonder how long until it will be offered in the other models? And if existing models could be updated with a addon module. I really don't want to have to carry around another dongle, just after I made a big deal about having built in bluetooth.
     
    BigEmpty, Jul 23, 2007
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    funny- are they planning on moving the numeric keypad to the left side too, like is shown in pic?
     
    Andy1210, Jul 24, 2007
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    Technically shouldn't we be able to buy a WUSB mini card and stick it in the empty WWAN card slot we have one our laptops?
     
    BigEmpty, Jul 24, 2007
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    WWAN is for cell-phone data plan access...I do now know if it would work...
     
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    Well considering it is just a standard Type IIIA mini card slot it shouldn't be a problem.

    Considering on the 1400 the WWAN slot is also used for the Flach Cache Module if you get the option, so that tells me any IIIA card will work in it.

    And there should already be un-used antenna connectors for a WWAN tuck away there.
     
    BigEmpty, Jul 24, 2007
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