GOBI option for Carbon Touch?

[laughingtonto]

It's not clear to me from the website whether you can add a broadband wireless option to the Carbon Touch. I know they're not shipping yet but hoped someone here might have greater insight...

-Todd

[VMarco]

It's not clear to me from the website whether you can add a broadband wireless option to the Carbon Touch. I know they're not shipping yet but hoped someone here might have greater insight...

-Todd

Dear Todd,

A 'guru' on another forum posted the below message to my similar question (I also need to add WWAN capability to my X1C Touch):
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There are several wwan options for X1C Gen 2 depend of the carrier you'll work with and the speed of wwan access you need:
1. Ericsson N5321, HSPA+ 21Mbps:, FRU 04W3842
2. Gobi 5000 (Sierra Wireless em7355), LTE/EVDO/HSPA+, FRU 04W3801
2a. the same as item #2., with SIM sku, FRU 04X6038
3. Sierra Wireless em7345, LTE/HSPA+, FRU 04X6014

IMHO the best choice is item #3:
- supports both networks class 3g and LTE
- supports frequency bands and network carriers almost worldwide, European as well as US (Verizon, AT&T, Sprint)

em7345 supports win8/8.1 natively w/o 3rd drivers. For win7 new drivers should be published soon officially. The only lack is there isn't a soluton for card activation within Verizon network yet. Lenovo and Verizon know about that.
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Hope this helps. Enjoy!