Using The Expansion Sleeve - Acer n20 Manual

Using the expansion sleeve

Both the CompactFlash and PC Card slots are flexible expansion features that allow
you to use a wide range of peripheral devices with your handheld. These may include:
• Hard drives
• Memory cards
• VGA (Video Graphics Array)
cards
• Cellular phone interface
• GPS (Global Positioning
System) cards
These two expansion slots also allow you to use a wide selection of products for
notebook computers making your handheld an ideal mobile buddy for your laptop
computer.
For instructions on how to use a CompactFlash card or a PC Card to perform data
backup, refer to "Backup/Restore" on page 64.
To learn more about CompactFlash and PC Card, refer to
(http://www.compactflash.org/) and (http://www.pc-card.com/) respectively.
The extra capacity battery function of the expansion sleeve system provides your
handheld with increased battery capacity to cope up with the more power-
demanding applications.
With the standard USB host connector you can easily attach USB peripheral devices to
your handheld without consuming precious system resources. The expansion sleeve
can readily support USB keyboards. For other USB devices, operation will depend on
driver availability.
Inserting a CompactFlash card
1 Hold your handheld securely.
2 Insert the CompactFlash card into its corresponding slot on the expansion sleeve.
7 U s i n g e x p a n s i o n f e a t u r e s
Expansion sleeve
• Modem cards
• Modem and Ethernet
combination cards
• 100 Mbps Ethernet adapters
• Ethernet LAN adapters
• Infrared wireless LAN
adapters
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