Novatel breaking out their Rev A EV-DO products in Q3 '06

by Paul Miller, posted Oct 2nd 2006 at 10:01PM

Good news for EV-DO junkies out there looking for a USB and/or Rev A fix: Novatel's lineup of Rev A products are now official, and are coming to an OEM or carrier near you this fall (we're thinking Sprint would be a fairly safe guess under the "carrier" category). The lineup includes that MCD3000 USB modem we saw hit the FCC the other day as the U720, which is apparently "about the size of a small cell phone," the Merlin M720 PC card -- which is already out for Sprint as the S720 -- and the Expedite E720 PCI Express Mini card. The latter is for laptop manufacturers to pop into their own products, so we probably won't see a retail release, and an ExpressCard version is notably absent. The good news is that all three of these pack EV-DO Rev A for 3.1Mbps speeds, along with the traditional GPS support, Rev 0 and CDMA compatibilities. According to Novatel, they're "currently ramping shipments at major carrier or OEM customers," and like we said, those S720 cards are already out, so these really should be right around the corner.

[Via Laptoping]

Filed under: Laptops, Wireless

Tags: ev-do, expedite e720, ExpediteE720, mcd3000, merlin m720, MerlinM720, novatel, sprint

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Mike @ Oct 2nd 2006 10:37PM

Isn't Q3 2006 over?

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Octavus @ Oct 2nd 2006 10:37PM

Is that suppose to be "along with the traditional GPS support" or GSM?

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Octavus @ Oct 2nd 2006 10:39PM

Nevermind I am wrong

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Thad Peters @ Oct 3rd 2006 2:07AM

Hmm. Jargon. I love Jargon.

This paragraph is totally incomprehensible to any normal reader.

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alex @ Oct 18th 2006 8:58AM

Watch for our full review of the u720 on the day it is releases... Brought to you by the great people running EVDO INFO at http://www.evdoinfo.com and http://www.evdoforums.com

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alex @ Nov 29th 2006 5:10PM

Even though the U720 has not officially been announced by Sprint yet... we have them for sale!

http://www.evdoinfo.com/The_News/Latest_News/Novatel_Ovation_U720_Now_Shipping_20061129856/

We also know that the device is compatible with Intel-Macs!

http://www.evdoinfo.com/The_News/Latest_News/Novatel_Ovation_U720_Mac_Compatible_20061129855/

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alex @ Mar 18th 2007 11:22PM

The Verizon version of Novatel's Rev-A ExpressCard is called the V740 and it is now shipping!
Get the V740 ExpressCard for $70 less than verizon stores, and get the best possible customer support by EVDO Experts, by checking out this site:
http://www.evdoinfo.com/content/view/1919/64/

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