found a couple of things while looking for gprs cards, i ended up finding 3g cards
http://www.infosyncworld.com/news/n/5917.html a samsung tablet thing like the nokia table with 520Mhz processor, 128MM Flash 128MB Ram,CF, USB (not sure if its host) Wifi, optional bluetooth and a DVB tv tuner with a 800*600 LCD touch screen. The downside: its running windows CE 5.0
wifi and gprs(/3g not sure atm) card
http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/english/p_s/pro...2pwl/index.html3g comact flash card
http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/english/p_s/pro...2/p2402_01.html uses the utms network which is what most telcos are usingfor 3g as far as i can tell, i might even go for one of those data plans for 3 over here in aus ($30 au for 100MB download what a rip)
going off the prices from
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=ht...Flanguage_tools it looks like it could be cheaper to get them from japan rather than one of the gprs cards from the us (look for the communication cards, if i have this all wrong can someone post)
for refrence FOMA is compatible with utms acodring to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOMAand a exert from the utms article on wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Mob...cations_System: UMTS supports up to 1920 kbit/s data transfer rates (and not 2 Mbit/s as frequently seen), although at the moment users in the real networks can expect performance up to 384 kbit/s - in Japan upgrades to 3 Mbit/s are in preparation. However, this is still much greater than the 14.4 kbit/s of a single GSM error-corrected Circuit Switched data channel or multiple 14.4 kbit/s channels in HSCSD, and offers the first prospect of practical inexpensive access to the World Wide Web on a mobile device and general use of MMS.
however they are marketed at 384Kb/s
not to mention these cards are tiny compared to your standard gprs cards, so if your looking for 3g speeds with your pda then these are your best bet, please note that these are marketed as Data only cards and i am unsure if you can use them to send voice, they appear to be able to be used for video confrencing but wethier or not you can make a standard call with them i could not tell
also i dont know how well linux supports them, i know they work for the zaurus but am unsure about any non-sharp roms, i guess if they appear as a high speed serial link that accepts the AT command set then you should be fine, any one got one of these
hope this helps anyone wanting high speed internet acsess
ps any one know what the phs thing is, i couldnt get a good translation
