SOCKET AND SYMBOL WIFI

[justineiler]

Hi
I just ordered my 5600 from amazon.  when i get it ill post if its the pxa255.
My question is now i got to buy a wifi card.
Im looking for low power and cheap.
I have seen the Symbol wifi on ebay for $30
and the Socket wifi on amazon for $80
I have heard that they are the same card, is this true?  Why the price difference?
So basicly what should i buy for the under $50 price range that wont drain the battery.

I have SEARCHED the forums and have found no answer.

thanks
justin

[spaul]

I have both on the 5600.  Both worked fine with the Sharp 3.3 ROM.  No additional driver needed.They are clearly physically identical.  The socket stoped working so i ordered the $30 symbol.  Then I noticed that if i bent the socket slightly forward it would work again.    Morale, don\'t carry either in your pocket while attached to the Z.  If anything i can browse using Opera 7 faster with the symbol.  Perhaps it has newer firmware.  I am also guessing that their is a glut of the possibly d/ced symbol due to the shift of PDAs away from CF towards SDIO.

Speculation aside there have been many posts about how a $30 symbol is a raging buy. Hope this helps.

[w4lna]

Hi
I just ordered my 5600 from amazon.  when i get it ill post if its the pxa255.
My question is now i got to buy a wifi card.
Im looking for low power and cheap.

You know the joke, pick any two: good, low power, cheap...

Low power cards command a premium...

I have seen the Symbol wifi on ebay for $30
and the Socket wifi on amazon for $80
I have heard that they are the same card, is this true?  Why the price difference?

If you look at their web sites you\'ll quickly discover that Symbol sells to an entirely different market than Socket and I suspect the Symbol cards are showing up as surplus on eBay.  I bought one of them a couple of weeks ago.  They are both Spectrum24 cards.

So basicly what should i buy for the under $50 price range that wont drain the battery.

They all drain the battery, no way to generate RF without using power.  Most cards will cost more than $50 retail, but there are bargains on eBay.  Get the Symbol card if you can (watch the version) or an Ambicom WL1100-CF.

I have SEARCHED the forums and have found no answer.

What about this?
http://www.zaurususergroup.com/index.php?n...1265&highlight=

and there was one other long post I made somewhere about getting the symbol card working.  It will work with the latest Sharp ROM, but there may be a configuration file or two missing that can be extracted from the Spectrum24 driver package.