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Although I had already noticed this phenomena in my new Pocket PC, I thought it might be a good idea to post this latest mobile pipeline article. It indicates that devices built with WiFi internally beat the range and reliability of add on cards like my old CF WiFi card. So if you are looking at a device with no WiFi built in thinking "I can always add that fuction later with an SD or CF card", you might want to reconsider if range might be a factor for you. "The nature of Wi-Fi connectivity changed in 2003 with built-in wireless capabilities surpassing add-in PC Cards, market research firm In-Stat/MDR said Monday.
The built-in capabilities, typically found in laptop computers, were in the form of mini-PCI cards embedded into devices such as laptops.
"The Wi-Fi Mini PCI card represented 49.1 percent of the Wi-Fi adapters shipped, and enabled most of the Wi-Fi mobile PCs (e.g. notebook and tablet PCs) in 2003," In-Stat/MDR analyst Norm Bogen said in a statement. "Conversely, (add-in) PC Cards held a quickly eroding 38.8 percent market share in 2003 after dominating the market with a 58.3 percent market share in 2002. "
I think you're misinterpreting this story. The story is reporting that the number of shipments of internal wifi cards are beating the number of shipments of add-on wifi cards, not that their range is better. I think the confusion is in the use of the word "capabilities", which they are just using to indicate the devices are capable of wifi, not to indicate the strength of the capability.
hmmm...you may be right
I was just so excited to see that I wasn't the only one to get more range and stability out of my connection, I couldn't help but see it that way. Still newsworthy though.
Yeah their use of the word "capabilities" does seem a bit odd, and at first glance I can see how you read it that way. It does make me curious now how the ranges do compare.
I could be wrong, but I would assume MiniPCI cards aren't being used in PDA's as they're about the size of a creit card (Perhaps a little wider) And fairly thick. I would assume PDAs would use a smaller technology. I think this is only laptops. (If I'm wrong let me know so I can at least learn something out of it
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