SpecTec’s MicroSD Card with Wifi

By Chip Chick

September 29, 2006 at 5:10 am

Sandiskfinger
Just a few years ago I remember how cool I thought it was when I bought a
compact flash wifi adapter for my ipaq. I marveled at how they managed to fit
wifi into such a tiny little card. Then Secure Digital cards became more
prevailant and some company came out with an SD card with wifi built in. Once
again, I marvelled at this new feat of technology. Some time later I got my
first smartphone with a mini SD slot. When i discovered that there was a miniSD
card with wifi, I could barely believe that it was true. Surely, nothing could
get smaller then these miniSD cards… and to fit wifi into one? How did they do
it?
MicrosdwifiA few weeks ago I got myself the Samsung i320n Windows Smartphone, which
I am in love with by the way. I ordered a MicroSD card for it. When it arrived i
almost choked when i saw the chicklet sized MicroSD card that managed to fit
1Gig inside of it. For the hell of it I decided to google "MicroSD with wifi", and lo and behold I dicovered that Spectec has MicroSD cards with 802.11b/g. I am
speechless. Then again in a world where RFID chips are the size of a piece of
rice, should anything amaze me anymore?


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  • Gearater

    October 1st, 2006 6:30 am

    SpecTec MicroSD Card with WiFi

    Remember quite some time ago when the Compact Flash card came with an integrated WiFi adapter? Times have certainly changed, when the WiFi adapter function made its way into Secure Digital cards, and thanks to the wonders of miniaturization, this…

  • Xataka

    October 2nd, 2006 5:28 am

    Spectec SDW 823, tarjeta microSD con WiFi

    El Wi-Fi es una de esas tecnologías que, al ser recientes, hemos podido vivir todo su ciclo, viendo como evolucionaba, aumentaba velocidades, reducía tamaños,… Y, la verdad, es que el ritmo de evolución ha sido endiablado, pero no creía que hasta es…

  • WC1

    October 19th, 2006 11:26 am

    Hi, does anybody know where a Micro SD Wifi card can be purchased?
    Thanks
    WC1

  • bill weaver

    June 7th, 2007 11:31 pm

    Just got word from Spectec that it will be two more months (8/2007).

    bweaver.net: Micro SD Wi-Fi

  • Kelvin Vine

    July 22nd, 2007 1:55 am

    I too have a Samsung i320n, but will this fone suppoer SDIO to use this new wireless card?

  • The+Gas+Grill

    August 24th, 2007 1:21 am

    Hi your message is stunning. I will definitely read your blog.. ciao

  • blacki607jack

    August 28th, 2007 4:19 pm

    any idea on the price…i’ve seen some of the old cf wifi cards on ebay still for 80-90 bucks. Will it be worth the risk if i find out that it doesn’t work for my bj?

  • EagerlyAwaiting

    September 11th, 2007 6:03 am

    Well its been a year since the news of the micro sd wifi card first came out. I was one of the first ones to get myself the Blackjack when Cingular released it in early fall last year. And I am still waiting. Is spectec going to release it ever? Or should we give up waiting.

    Also, are there any other alternatives? Has anyone had a chance to use and test it yet? anyways, the wait continues.

  • bill weaver

    September 11th, 2007 12:17 pm

    I haven’t been able to find it or get a specific price yet. Granted, I haven’t looked in the last couple weeks… when I contacted them a few months ago, they said August. With the normal delays, I guess it’d be a good time to start looking again. Of course, I’m on my second Blackjack and it acts flakey too. Sigh.

  • Cory G

    September 17th, 2007 6:37 pm

    I emailed them today to see a possible release date and where it will be available for purchase. I’ll post again when they reply.

  • Cory G

    September 17th, 2007 11:40 pm

    “Dear Sir
    It will take another few months

    BR
    S.T”

    That’s the reply I received today. Hopefully they won’t say the same thing in a few months..

  • Cory G

    September 19th, 2007 2:29 am

    Since I emailed a couple email addresses on the Spectec website I got a couple answers. I like the new message better:

    “Dear Sir:

    The SDW-823 of micro sd wlan card will be released in October, we’ll inform you by then, all of our products you may purchase from here directly, thank you for your attention.

    Best Regards”

    So hopefully no more delays and we will have wifi on our wifiless phones soon!

  • too good to be true?

    September 25th, 2007 6:15 am

    I just caught wind of this idea, with my recent purchase of the Samsung BJ under ATT. However I’ve noticed in my searches, that this was announced almost a year ago.

    2 thoughts come to mind. 1. Why is this random (no-name) company the only ones who are claiming this solution, I would have thought SanDisk or some other communications or NAND manufacturer would have been also to capitalize on this idea by now. 2. Perhaps they are having trouble maintaining their “claims” 9-11 months after anouncement of developement seems like a long time….

    Not a big proponent of using my smart phones Data plans, I am in huge favor of using Wifi….

  • joy

    November 5th, 2007 11:38 am

    this guys have the best price for microsd card
    http://www.thegreatguys.com

  • Cory G

    November 5th, 2007 4:45 pm

    Can we delete this guy above me who is advertising?

  • Billy

    December 11th, 2007 5:21 pm

    Hi Guys…..I got a BlackJack 2 and I know it support SDIO, would like to know if any one had any experience with this card.

    Thanks,

  • nicki

    January 6th, 2008 7:48 am

    Just got a BJ II also and hpe when it comes out it works. The 3g does not work where I am, but I love this phone(and I had an iphone before). If anyone finds out the release date please post. Thanks

  • elaina

    January 16th, 2008 6:24 am

    its still not out yet right??? would love to buy one!!

  • KipMudson

    January 25th, 2008 7:49 am

    I too have a blackjack. I was not very impressed by its constant dropped calls and whatnot. But overall it’s a pretty good phone. (really tough too, I’ve dropped it many a time :D )
    Anyhow, I was wondering if there will be charges for internet use through the provider? In other words, will I be charged as if I was browsing the web on my phone?

  • blacki607jack

    January 25th, 2008 4:08 pm

    Hey kip, if you plan to use the web browser on the blackjack you should get an unlimited data plan. I have a blackjack because i liked my co-workers and i have unlimited. it comes in handy sometimes. my co-worker ended up dropping his data plan to a specific monthly rate for x amount of megabites and he ended up going over. his overage charge on data got him a bill of 250 dollars when he thought he was going to save by down grading his plan. our plans are normally about 80 bucks a month with employee discounts.

  • KipMudson

    January 25th, 2008 6:16 pm

    Yeah, I would like to get the unlimited data plan, but 80$ is a lot for a college student D: Thanks for the information though!

  • Jerry

    April 23rd, 2008 4:58 am

    Well I can’t find any Micro SD WiFi cards for sale. Any one have one yet?

  • Tim

    April 23rd, 2008 5:37 am

    Wow. this idea is still alive. I have the Black Jack first series, and I would have thought for sure that the BlackJack II would have come with WIFI support built-in. Now Samsung either ran out of space (which with ALL of the other buttons / and communication options) I find hard to belive.
    OR built-in WIFI was left out intentionally so that you would be forced to be dependant on either ATT EDGE or 3G data network.

    So I really have to ask: Do you really think they will manufacture this card? I seriously have my doubts. Last time I googled Micro SD Wifi cards (09/07) this site, and articles referencing this compahy were there only hits. (maybe things have changed)
    I had to lay my bets, I’d call this a red herring idea.

  • Kelvin Vine

    April 23rd, 2008 12:03 pm

    It does not look like this card is ever going to be manufactured. I have moved on to a Sony Ericsson P1 wihich has Wi-Fi built in and doesnt use micro-sd anyway.
    It seems that the micro-sd form is just too small to fit wi-fi inside.
    Pehaps phone manufacturers who want to add upgradability (why would they do that anyway because then you wont buy new phones) need to go back to the slightly larger mini-SD.

  • bill weaver

    April 26th, 2008 5:28 pm

    Just heard from them last week. Apparently there will be several more months of delays to get the Spectec microsd wi-fi card. Oh well.

  • EDWARD BLANCO

    May 5th, 2008 7:55 pm

    WHICH WIFI IS BEST FOR AN IPHONE OR P168+?
    HOW MANY GB OF MEMORY DOES IT HOLD?

  • Jerry

    May 6th, 2008 3:52 pm

    So, will this card have extra memory on it too or do we have to sacrafice memory for wifi?

  • dustin

    September 25th, 2008 11:34 pm

    Hey i found your site looking for a micro wifi sd card and the only thing ive seen was talk and pictures really interested in the product but havnt found any facts or prices on the product

  • AdventureMom

    October 6th, 2008 9:10 pm

    Spectec card is available:

    http://www.buygpsnow.com/Cart.aspx

  • bill weaver

    October 7th, 2008 10:31 am

    AdventureMom, can you point us to a product page? Your link goes to the shopping cart at buygpsnow.com. Also, we’re looking for the Spectec MicroSD Wi-Fi card, model number SDW-823. Searching at buygpsnow shows no results. They have MiniSD and SD wi-fi, but not MicroSD. Thanks! -bill

  • Blackjacker

    November 29th, 2008 4:18 am

    Hey, I just got hold of a blackjack 2 for att, and i was lookin to purchase a micro sd wifi card for it, has anyone used it successfully yet on a blackjack 2? Looking for ur advice

    thanks

  • Anthony

    November 29th, 2008 8:37 pm

    yea i got a BJ2 also and i ordered a 4gig microsd card then i found out there was this and now i really want it.. anyone got any new info on when its gonna be released ?

  • waitingme

    February 12th, 2009 3:27 pm

    any update on the micro sd card with wifi?

  • ANDREW

    April 1st, 2009 5:45 pm

    hi Folks i found this web who posibly sell the Micro Sd W823g 802.11

    http://www.cecompass.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWCATS&Category=4

    Please someonde try it, and tell us if its true.

  • Dylan

    May 5th, 2009 1:52 pm

    does this work with the lg viewty??

  • Михаил Кузьмин

    May 31st, 2009 6:57 am

    У меня что-то сегодня с утра Ваш сайт не открывался. У всех все нормально было?

  • afca

    August 4th, 2009 11:26 am

    “hi Folks i found this web who posibly sell the Micro Sd W823g 802.11

    http://www.cecompass.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWCATS&Category=4

    Please someonde try it, and tell us if its true.”

    They’re out of stock

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