Psion Gold Card 56k + Fax - a reliable connection to the Internet
Written: Mar 20 '03
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Pros: Reliable and easy to use
Cons: A little bit old as a mobile solution
The Bottom Line: Even if it's a little bid old, it's a good and reliable mobile solution for laptop users
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| adicos's Full Review: Psion Gold Card Netglobal Network / Modem Combo (6... |
I had a Psion Gold Card 56K Modem + Fax (provided by the company), but it was also GSM and ISDN ready. Now I upgraded to GSM, buying a cable (relatively cheap) for a Nokia mobile phone and downloading the upgrade from Psion website. And it works very well, much faster than a infrared connection from a laptop to a mobile phone. Everything was relatively easy to install and configure, so even if you are not a techy person (as me :), you're able to do it yourself.
As a card, The Psion Dacom Global Gold Card is a leading PC card modem, used worldwide in all Dell computers, but also in Compaqs or other makers. Use this same world class modem with the Psion Series 5/5mx or 3c/3mc. All you need is the Psion PC Card modem adapter. Connect your handheld computer to the world for email, web browsing, faxing. For true mobility, you need to connect your PC card modem to a GSM phone
As features, there are:
* Type II PCMCIA Card
* Asynchronous Data Transmission
* Detects Dial, Busy, and Ring Tones
* GSM Ready: Major Mobile Phones Supported Including Nokia, Ericsson and Motorola. It worked on my Nokia 6310i (and buying the cable is definitively cheaper than buying a bluetooth card for using with this phone and the speed is not so bad - not as 1MB for Bluetooth, but fairly acceptable)
* ISDN Ready. (Requires purchase of optional ISDN upgrade kit)
Data Standards:
- ITU V.90, (including support for both a-law and u-law
countries)
- ITU-T V.34
- V.42
- V.42bis
- V.32bis
Fax Standards:
- Fax ITU-T V.17
- V.29
- V.27ter
- V.21 channel 2 send and receive
- Group 3 (TIA/EIA 578 Class 1 and Class2) Fax
Error Correction Standards:
- Data Compression V.42
- MNP 2-4 V.42bis
- MNP 5
Additional Features:
- Supports Standby and Hibernate Power Saving Modes
- Supports Tone Dialing and Blind Dialing
So, even if it's a little bit old, it's still a reliable and fairly cheap mobile solution
Recommended:
Yes
Amount Paid (US$): N/A
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adicos
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