5400 Series GSM SIM Card Slot

[ryanhensley]

Has anyone seen the GSM slot under the battery on the new 5400 series? It is defintily a SIM slot but it is unadvertised. I placed a SIM in the slot and nothing happens and there is no software to control that...but I bet there will be soon. Anyone heard or seen this?

[glowrider]

Definitely a sim card slot there. I've been reading its for the 56xx series iPaq that has GPRS and not WiFi. If we can get sim card access, that would be INCREDIBLE:)

[vsat]

As far as I know, h54xx series does not have GSM support.
You may have to buy the Siemens phone.
h54xx is launched to compete with the Toshiba e740.

I just compared the two(Aestheticallly) in CompUSA. It's slightly sleeker than 3955, display is similar.....

[glowrider]

Well, according to HP and my own fiddling with my 5450, my previous post stands as what the deal is.

[Myrjam]

I've heard that the 54xx series will contain 3 different options,
on three different machines. The first type with wifi is out now. The other three would follow

one with wifi, one with gsm/gprs, and one with gps

http://www.pocketgps.co.uk/ipaq5000.asp

I just ordered the wifi version, can't wait to get it.

[temoore]

Most posts I've seen indicate the current 5400 series probably won't work w/ SIM card, that the SIM slot was included to keep retooling costs down for the future versions. I am using the Sprint CF2031 compact flash card in mine, and I can make and recieve calls, although I got it for the G3 Sprint PCS Vision data connection. Since the card has both data and voice, it qualifies for the $30 - 40 per month that includes 300 minutes and UNLIMITED data. Having used GPRS (T68i) w/ my 5400, it was too spotty and slow. The G3 is consistantly twice as fast. Just my 2cents.