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	daperl	2009-04-25 , 23:43
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Originally Posted by GeneralAntilles

You're kidding, right? You want to hook up the internal 3G modem to a USB port in a device this size? Assuming you could actually fit all that **** in there, say hello to 3-hour battery life.

No, I wasn't kidding. But I was expecting you to to take the directly proportional speculating leap that:

USB 2.0 HSPA dongle IS TO netbook

WHAT

<power-conscience, small-device form factor> HSPA dongle IS TO tablet

Both my phone and my n8x0's have internal removable batteries and internal removable SD cards. Are you telling me one more small replaceable piece of internal hardware would be a big deal? You'd be kidding, right?

It's hooked up to a serial connection (SPI, I think) they released the kernel drivers around September last year.

Thanks for the info. Even better. But let me recap some of what I was trying to say:

hard-wired HSPA device: not modular, kreepy
closed-source binary blob: modular, maybe less kreepy

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