Wireless Cards All the Rage at CES

[Steve]

Wireless cards, especially those built around the Secure Digital (SD) standard, seem to be all the rage at this year?s Consumer Electronics Show. Anycom, Uniden, SanDisk and Socket announce upcoming cards built around 802.11b and Bluetooth.


Read all about it at http://www.brighthand.com/article/CES_Wireless_Cards

[R K]

Originally posted in the article
The same goes for wireless personal area networking, where SD cards built around Bluetooth technology outnumber CompactFlash cards.

I don't know if this statement is too accurate. If you check on ebay these days, there are Bluetooth CompactFlash Cards from companies you've never even heard of.
Abicom, Belkin, Brainbox, and Socket are the popular ones.
I think there are a lot more.

[Steve]

Good point. When it comes right down to it there are only a couple of companies that actually manufacture these cards and private label them for everyone else.

The point I was trying to make (although I admit I didn't do it very well) was that SD is the (very near) future and CF is getting long in the tooth.

[cecina]

Socket is offering a Bluetooth SDIO Card for PPC's as well.....
http://www.portable.co.uk/PRODUCTS/C...t_SDIOkit.html

[cecina]

Some Bluetooth CF Cards:

- Brainboxes BL-565 Compact Flash Card
- Belkin CF card
- AnyCom Compact Flash Card CF2001
- Socket Bluetooth CF card
- Pretec Compact Flash Card
- Anycom CF2001 Printer card (coming)
-Blue Monkey Bluetooth CF Card
-Billionton Systems Inc. Bluetooth Compact Flash Card CFBT02
-Fujitsu Limited Bluetooth CF Card MBH2BT01
-Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. Bluetooth CF Card 930700810495
-MAVIN Technology Inc. MAVIN Bluetooth CF Card MCF-MF2.1
-SysOnChip Inc. Bluetooth CompactFlash Card SOC1S02

from....
http://www.blueunplugged.com/shop/de...?Department=10
http://www.expansys.com/d_bluetooth.asp
http://www.btdesigner.com/prodcards.htm (csr related site)

Availability is another question....