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nyar

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Cheap CF GSM Card?
« on: October 25, 2004, 08:27:38 am »
Howdy,

Investigating some options at the moment for my Z; one would possibly be to join up with a decent GPRS GSM deal with a mobile phone provider.

Missing link is a CF GSM card; I've looked around and only found some I could ship in from the US, but it'd end up costing me about AU$500, and I've got no guarantee it'll work with the Z.

My guess is if the thing (like a lot of GSM PCMCIA cards) shows up as a serial port, and lets me feed AT commands to it, I can then get things working.

Anybody done this?  Anybody know of places that sell Z compatible cards cheaply?  Any downsides to this approach (the alternative would be to possibly get a CF Bluetooth card and use my normal phone, but then that ties up that line).

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Cheap CF GSM Card?
« Reply #1 on: October 25, 2004, 09:07:59 am »
What is cheap?

There is a card from Audiovox: RTM8000

A discussion about experiences can be found here on the ZUG:

https://www.oesf.org/forums/inde...t=0&#entry44638

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