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[noodlesUK]

Lots of applications don’t require radios, but the previous series of RP2040s had a “W” variant that had wifi and BLE. We may yet see a RP2350W.

[jonp888 → noodlesUK]

You are mixing up SOCs and devboards. RP2040 is a chip, there has never been version with onboard communication.

Raspberry Pi Foundation released a RP2040 based dev board(Pico W) with an additional external wireless chip, as have others(including boards with an additional ESP32 just do comms).

[noodlesUK → jonp888]

Ah thanks for clearing that up. Entirely my mistake, I thought that it was a package like the ESP32, but it is not.

[tpmoney → noodlesUK]

Their plan is to have it by the end of the year:

>Before the end of the year, we expect to ship a wireless-enabled Pico 2 W, using the same Infineon 43439 modem as Pico W, and versions of both Pico 2 and Pico 2 W with pre-installed 0.1-inch headers.

[freeqaz → noodlesUK]

They say in the post that it will be released towards the end of the year.