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802.11g SDIO Wi-Fi Card from Just Mobile – Mobis
Reviewed by: Bob Katayama

Lately Wireless LAN access has become the rage with mobile devices. Wi-Fi hotspots are popping up in all major cities and even ome cities are creating a FREE Wi-Fi zone in their downtown core. Many of the newer mobile devices come equipped with an 802.11b wireless LAN built right in. Most of the older devices do not and to take advantage of this technology requires you to purchase a separate SDIO Wi-Fi card. This is where the SDIO wireless card from Just Mobile comes in.

It is one of the smallest SDIO Wi-Fi cards around. Externally it looks like any other Wi-Fi as you can see in this image below. The Just Mobile card is the one on the far left.

The SDIO card from Spectec is slightly smaller but only by a couple of millimeters. Certainly the Just Mobile card is much smaller compared to the Sandisk Wi-Fi card. Sandisk is the most widely recognized manufacturer of SD cards but the Just Mobile works very well.

The Just Mobile driver integrates into Windows Mobile and allows you to use the familiar Windows Mobile wireless applet. Installation is a breeze. Just insert the CD into the PC and install while Activesynced. Takes seconds to install the driver.

2 clicks of the mouse and the driver is installed. Afterwards, you can insert the card and away you go. The Wi-Fi card will activate and automatically detect an accesspoint or Wi-Fi signal. The driver will prompt you the necessary information as required by the remote connection like the encryption code. Once all the proper information has been entered, your connection will be live and you can launch the Pocket Internet Explorer from the START button. The bright LED on the card is very visible and will allow you to see if the card is active or not.

I was connecting to an 802.11b accesspoint therefore there would be no reason why I would want to install an 802.11g card on an i-Mate Jasjar which already comes equipped with an 802.11b Wi-Fi card. Surprisingly though, it does make sense to install the Just Mobile 802.11g card. I found out that on the i-Mate Jasjar, the Just-Mobile performed better than the included Wi-Fi card. The accesspoint used is a D-Link 802.11b. The Just Mobile card automatically connected using the 802.11b protocol. The web pages would clearly appear 1 – 3 seconds faster when compared to the integrated 802.11b card on the Jasjar.