RE: GSM or CDMA for mobile email and database?

>Well, I ended up buying a Huawei EC321 PCMCIA card with a China Unicom C=
DMA
>SIM. ....
>consistently connects all over Beijing (even from a taxi at 80Km/hour on=
 the
>5th ring road) at 230.4Kbps.  The China Unicom data service has been 100=
%
>reliable, and costs a flat 98 yuan a month, with unlimited traffic and
>connections.
<snip>
>All up cost for the card and the Unicom SIM was 800 yuan.

As a newcomer to Beijing, and this list, I'm interested to know where you
purchased the card and the data service SIM?

FYI this comment on the Linux-pcmcia mailing list;

Huawei EC321 works with Linux
"I have tested this on a Fedora Core 5, and earlier on a Fedora Core 4
box both with kernel 2.6."

http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-pcmcia/2006-April/003489.html

KR,

James