The WHANTO series IO card, Pretec's patent-pending proprietary new technology for universal connectivity significantly reduces the inventory matrices for dedicated CF IO card, SD IO card, and MS IO card for PDAs equipped with different slots of CF, SD, or MS. By using the same detachable functional unit, users can have the choices to select one of the four (4) interfaces by connecting different inter-changeable interfacing module card (CF/SD/MS/USB), making WHANTO series IO card the most convenient and cheapest expansion solution for enterprises with multiple interface PDAs such as CF slot PDA and SD slot PDA.

Current CF IO card offering from Pretec includes 56K modem, Ethernet LAN, GPS, Bluetooth, 802.11b, GPRS, Camera, Presenter, Barcode Scanner etc. and SD camera and SD Presenter, Pretec is the most comprehensive small form factor IO card provider in the world. The introduction of the WHANTO series IO card will make all the above mentioned functional units with multiple interfacing capability by users choice, implement the "re-use technology" philosophy of Pretec design, achieve the objective of convenience, flexibility, low cost by design and innovation.

WHANTO, means "Change Head" in Chinese, with another patent-pending feature of reversible and inter-changeable connection of the interfacing module card, enabling the Pretec detachable IO card have both the face-up or face-down "mirroring" feature by users choice to adapt different brand of PDA with different orientation of CF/SD/MS slot.

WHANTO series IO card will be available start from Q2 with CF and SD interface module cards, and from Q3 with MS and USB interface module card/cable. Multiple function support with one or two functional units with flash memory built-in will be demonstrated by later this year, a great expansion of the WHANTO series in the near future.

About Pretec:

Pretec(TM) Electronics Corp. (http://www.pretec.com) offers a complete spectrum of small form factor memory cards and card readers such as ATA/CF card, IDE & Mini-IDE Flash Drive (MIDE(TM)), SmartMedia(TM), MultiMedia Card(TM), and SD Card for the digital imaging, mobile computing, and Military/Industrial Control markets; and is the creator of Innovative CompactI/O(TM) cards for PocketPC(TM), digital cameras and many IA devices. Pretec has consistently demonstrated the highest capacity CF cards in the world; such as 80MB, 128MB, 160MB, 320MB, 640MB, 1.5GB, 2GB, 3GB, and 6GB CF card at various locations around the world for the past five years.

*Note: MIDE(TM), CompactI/O(TM), CompactModem(TM), and CompactLAN(TM) are trademarks of Pretec Electronics Corp. PocketPC(TM) is trademark of Microsoft Corp. All other trademarks mentioned herein are recognized as the property of their respective holders.