Tag: 3G
HP DataPass Brings Pre-Paid Mobile Broadband to HP Notebooks (Video)
On select HP notebooks with embedded 3G cards for mobile broadband access, including those with Qualcomm’s Gobi cards for GSM/HSPA/CDMA/EV-DO network access, HP will be pre-installing a connection manager that gives users access to HP DataPass, a pre-paid mobile broadband service for on the go connectivity. Rather than have enterprise and consumer customers sign up [...]
USB Modems Preferred 3 to 1 over Personal Hotspots. Why?
Notebook owners are hesitant to embrace personal hotspots, like the MiFi, and built in modems as their mobile broadband connection for notebooks. Instead, ABI Research found that the old fashioned USB modem is the preferred mobile connectivity option, outselling hotspots and embedded modems 3 to 1. ABI Research expects that this will be the trend [...]
Do You Need a 3G or 4G Tablet? Or is WiFi Enough?
Over at JKOnTheRun Kevin Tofel raises a good question about the connectivity of upcoming tablets, many of which are launching with 3G or 4G versions before a WiFi only version is released. Tofel asks readers if the 3G connectivity is a must have and unsurprisingly the early results are staggeringly on the side of WiFi over 3G. Why would users want [...]
MacBook Air 3G Inbound? Survey Says Yes
The MacBook Air is a great portable computer, but one thing missing from the Air, that you’ll find on other business and consumer ultraportables, is a built in 3G connection. While you can use a USB Modem, MiFi or turn your phone into a hotspot; many users prefer the convenience of having a 3G connection [...]
Skype iPhone App Updated For Video Chat Over 3G and to Computers
Skype announced today that the popular app for the iPhone had been updated to include video chat. Unlike Facetime which only works over WiFi and only to FaceTime the iPhone, iPod Touch and Mac — the updated Skype App for iPhone will allow users to video chat over 3G and to chat with users Skype on Windows [...]
Laptop Data Plans Compared: 3G, 4G from All Major Carriers
With the announcement of Verizon 4G yesterday, all the major U.S. carriers now have a faster 4G-type connection to offer and Engadget has gone through the dizzying array of plans, speeds, and prices to try and figure out which offer laptop data plans the best value per GB. You can see the helpful, but incredibly [...]
XGearlive Touge Special Edition Case for iPhone 3G and 3GS is “Hardcore and Stylin’”
XGearlive is focused on ‘sophisticated coolness’ for the cases they make for all iOS devices, MacBook Pros and other mobile devices. Their Touge Special Edition case for the iPhone 3G and 3GS successfully applies their design philosophy with a case that one of our guest reviewers, my son, said was ‘hardcore and stylin’. XGearlive sent [...]
iPhone 4 Breaks More than Previous iPhones says Squaretrade Study
As we previously reported, there seems to be a problem with the iPhone 4 glass. Now SquareTrade, a company that sells extended warranties of electronics including the iPhone 4, has a study that shows the iPhone 4 glass breaks 82 percent more often than the previous generations of the iPhone. There were 20,000 iPhone 4 [...]
AT&T launches Pay as You Go Data Service and New 3G Netbooks
AT&T announced this week that users can now purchase a 3G enabled netbook or mini notebook without the need for a contract with pay-as-you -go data service. The new plans called Prepaid DataConnect Pass Plans come in three levels and are joined by three new devices; the Acer Aspire AS1830 notebook, Acer Aspire One 532h [...]
Virgin Mobile Broadband2Go Review
Getting connected on the go is pretty easy these days, but unfortunately in most cases it is also expensive and requires a contract. Virgin Mobile is one of the few providers to offer an affordable contract free easy to use mobile broadband solution. The $79.99 BroadBand2Go USB adapter and service which we have been reviewing over the past month has [...]
