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Nokia launches world’s smallest PC card with built-in GSM capability -The Nokia Cellular Card Phone Integrates a PC Card and a GSM Phone
March 12, 1997
Nokia today introduced an advanced new solution for wireless data communication. The Nokia Cellular Card Phone is a PC Card with a built-in GSM phone. This new product turns a laptop PC into a wireless office without a cellular phone, interface adapters or cables. The Nokia Cellular Card Phone will be available on GSM markets in Europe and Asia in the second half of 1997.
With the Nokia Cellular Card Phone, the user is able to send and receive Short Messages, faxes and e-mail, access the Internet, connect to corporate databases and download files over digital GSM networks. The laptop PC can also be used as a speakerphone to make and receive calls.
- This product is easy to use, while integrating all the functionality of a cellular phone and data card. This single solution can be used in many applications in current laptop PCs and tomorrow’s PDA’s, says Mr. Reijo Paajanen, Senior Vice President, Wireless Data, Nokia Mobile Phones.
The Nokia Cellular Card Phone is compatible with most laptop computers, network computers and subnotebooks with a PC Card type II or III compatible slot and a sufficient power supply.
It works with basic Windows ‘95 applications such as Microsoft Phone, Microsoft Exchange and Netscape Navigator as well as with communications applications such as MS Mail, WinFax PRO and ProComm Plus.
The cellular industry is moving from the pure voice-based services to value-added, often data-based services. Solutions like the Nokia Cellular Card Phone bring whole new customer groups into wireless data. - For industry use, the Nokia Cellular Card Phone can be integrated in vertical solutions, such as wireless Point of Sales terminals, vending machines and Traffic Telematic systems. The Nokia Cellular Card Phone opens a number of possibilities for industrial applications, says Mr. Paajanen.
- The main target customers for the Nokia Cellular Card Phone are laptop users with a need for full voice and data services regardless of time and place. These customers often prefer a second cellular phone devoted to wireless data transmission, notes Mr. Reijo Paajanen
The Nokia Cellular Card Phone is a PC Card type II extended device, combining an autonomous cellular transceiver with an external control interface, an antenna and an integrated SIM card reader. The cellular phone and data transmission functionality are implemented by the transceiver card where as the user interface is Windows ‘95 or compatible software.
The Nokia Cellular Card Phone supports data transmission rates up to 9 600 bits/s and includes V.42bis data compression (when available on the network). Audio is transferred in a digital format over the PC Card interface. The dimensions are 124 x 54 x 10 mm and the weight is only 60 grams. The Sales package of the Nokia Cellular Card Phone includes the transceiver card, three installation disks and a protective carrying case.
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