TRENDnet's HotFlash TEW-428UF

By Ryan Block

Ok, so maybe not everyone (and especially not their mother) is going to be immediately interested in a device called the HotFlash, but at least TRENDnet done did what we'd really wanted with their latest WiFi detector: add memory. The last thing anyone who's purchased a laptop in the last few years needs is an external WiFi adapter, but a WiFi detector and a USB flash drive — that's how you do it.
The TEW-428UF pairs their rather nice WiFi detector device with 512MB of integrated flash memory (and they've still got 802.11g, you know, just in case your laptop's WiFi craps). Seriously though, next version can we just get a much smaller WiFi detector + USB flash drive and forgo the WiFi adapter part entirely? In the mean time, the TEW-428UF
should ship Jan. 1 for a hundred bones.

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