Hi,

  I think quite a few people reads this thread, but for your
information...

>   One problem of MI-C1 is that it doesn't have the modem: we
> (Japanese) can connect the cell phone to it to make it IP
> reachabe, but it means that you (who dooesn't live in Japan)
> cannot make it IP reachable anymore.

  The sentence above I wrote is not true.  You can plug a
modem into the compact flash slot.

  -- Yoshiki