Windows Phone Thoughts: SanDisk WiFi Card on an SD

"Sandisk is doing some very interesting things these days. While its core focus is "solid state" memory they've added the words Wi-Fi and combo to their vocabulary. I stumbled into its PR office at CeBIT and the folks there were nice enough to give me the pitch rather than throwing me out.
Currently, SanDisk is shipping a CompactFlash (CF) form factor 802.11b card for PDAs and they will soon be shipping a "combo" card that integrates a SD slot into the CF thing, if memory serves. Price of $129, so you can have both WiFi and a second media type, not a bad thing for folks who have multiple mini-media types floating about.

Of a more "Q" type of flavor was the SD-slot sized WiFi card. Yes, you read that right, they've put a full 802.11b implementation into something a little larger than an SD card; there's a little nub on top with a red light to indicate activity, but it's fully function. It is also supposed to come out in a combo-card flavor, so you can have connectivity and be able to still have an SD card riding along (after all, currently PDAs only come with a single SD card slot). Only catch is that the SD WiFi card needs to go into an SD/IO slot and there are but a handful of PDAs that have implemented the functionality."