Laptops Provision for SIM card in Lenovo S10-3 netbook?

[nishantgandhi]

I have a Lenovo S10-3 netbook.

While cleaning it today, I removed the battery and saw a slot for SIM card! Please see the pics for reference.

Does it mean there is an internal modem in the netbook? If yes, is this a 3G enabled one? How can I check it?

The netbook didnt come with any bundled software to indicate that I can use a SIM card. So what software would I need?

Also, what software to be used in Ubuntu 10.10 to extract the SIM card related functionality (i.e. SMS, calls, internet)?

 

[rock_ya_baby]

My DELL XPS 1330 also has that slot, however, the circuit is missing from inside. After some googling, I found that that feature was supposedly released for North America only.

If your net-book actually does have the whole thing, awesome!

 

[deep16]

hmm only slot does not do anything... you need to have a 3g mini pci-e card installed in ur laptop which is obviously not there, no vendor pre-installs it there .. you need to buy it from yourself and install it..