Mobile Broadband

Leaked 2009 Roadmap of Sprint’s 4G WiMax Rollout

Engadget stumbled on what appears to be Sprint’s WiMax roadmap for the rest of 2009, and it’s an odd mix of major and minor cities—with some notable exceptions, especially New York City and San Francisco. The third quarter looks like mostly little cities and towns, with WiMax only coming to some more major cities (Philly,…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Aug 1

Virgin Mobile Pay-As-You-Go Mobile Broadband Is Predictably Expensive

Virgin Mobile has lifted the veil on its Broadband2Go service and accompanying 3G dongle. Its selling points—that it’s contract-free and runs over Sprint’s network—are somewhat negated by its $150 setup cost and punishing rates. Instead of metering access directly, Virgin’s scheme asks you to buy prepaid, time-loaded chunks of access. Here are the tiers: $10:…

Tech News John Herrman Jun 10

Giz Explains: Why Cellphone Reception Still Sucks

“Hi, I’d like a large barbecue chicken pizza with extra—*fzzt* oni *asjkhwakj* no *kssshh*” CALL FAILED. What just happened here? With all of today’s modern wireless technology, why do cellphones still pull this crap? For all the miraculous things we’re able to do with phones now—tell 600 Twitter followers unpleasantly intimate details of our lives,…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Apr 2

Sprint Adds Laptop Access To Their Simply Everything Plan For $150

Sprint just added mobile 3G laptop access to their Simply Everything plan, calling it Simply Everything Plan + Mobile Broadband, which gives you unlimited everything for $150 a month. For business customers that call, text, email and surf a lot, this could be a rather good plan to cover all your mobile usage. Sprint claims…

Tech News Jason Chen Feb 16

How To: Tether the iPhone or G1 To Your Laptop For Free 3G Broadband

If you read Gizmodo, the odds are good you’re carrying one of these two pieces-they’re among our favorite 3G smartphones right now. Today let’s learn how to tether ’em up to your laptop. Note: while data tethering is possible on each phone without any additional tethering plan, you’ll want to be careful that you’re not…

Tech News John Mahoney Feb 14

Huawei i-Mo Acts as 3G Modem and Wi-Fi Router all in One Bite-Sized Package

Set to debut at Mobile World Conference, the Huawei i-Mo combines a 3G HSPA modem with a wi-fi router that gives your laptop mobile broadband access without having the dongle or extra wires attached. Slashgear says i-Mo is roughly the size of a small keychain fob, and also has a microSD slot for data storage.…

Tech News Adrian Covert Feb 13

Sony Vaio P Modded To Accept SIM Cards, 3G via HSDPA Connection

The Vaio P comes with EV-DO hardware, but an enterprising modder has tweaked everyone’s favorite makeup compact netbook to accept HSDPA SIM cards too, for 3G connections from AT&T. It’s not for beginners, though. https://gizmodo.com/sony-vaio-p-review-5131637 Since there was no elusive SIM card slot found like there was on the HP Mini 1000, the modder had…

Tech News John Mahoney Feb 13

Netgear Jumps in the Mobile Broadband Game With the WWAN 3G Mobile Broadband Router

The 3G Mobile Broadband Router is Netgear’s first foray into the land of 3G sharing, and shares the connection of any compatible 3G USB dongle. The router looks like any other Netgear device in design, but it has a USB port for the dongle and (presumably) you configure all the settings through the router page.…

Tech News Adrian Covert Jan 7

Verizon Rolling Out Superfast LTE Mobile Broadband Next Freakin’ Year

Verizon is so super-serial about beating AT&T in the race to deploy 4G LTE mobile broadband (wazzat?), CTO Dick Lynch said yesterday they’ll start rolling it out next year, ahead of the original 2010 timeframe. https://gizmodo.com/verizons-9-36-billion-700mhz-plans-high-speed-4g-lte-376103 The original timetable called for initial rollouts in 2010, with a wide commercial launch in 2011 and true mass…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Dec 10

HP Mini 1000 Netbook Now Shipping With 3G Internet Capability

Not that it wasn’t technically possible before, but the HP Mini 1000 now has official support for 3G WWAN Mobile Broadband out of the box and with support for multiple cell carriers. https://gizmodo.com/hp-mini-1000-already-supports-3g-5097493 Previously, users had reported the existence of a dormant SIM slot inside the Mini 1000’s WWAN module, and ability to hack the…

Tech News Adrian Covert Dec 4

Tectoy Zeebo Gaming System Uses Free 3G Connection to Distribute Games

The Tectoy Zeebo doesn’t scream gaming console powerhouse by any means, but what makes it interesting is the free 3G connection as the means to purchase and download games. In addition to keeping distribution costs low and titles accessible to those living outside of metropolitan areas, the downloadable content helps cut down on game piracy,…

Tech News Adrian Covert Nov 12

Start Your WiMax Engines With Laptops From Acer, Asus, Lenovo and Toshiba

Sprint’s Xohm WiMax network got extra super official today with a party and all, so laptop makers are tossing out confetti in the form of WiMax-enabled notebooks. Here’s what you’ve got to pick from. Acer dropped a pair of Aspire cheapies in 14- and 16-inch sizes, while Asus’s 14 and 15-inchers are a bit mo’…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Oct 8

Xohm’s WiMax Coverage Quietly Live and Working in Six More Cities

We saw Sprint/Clearwire/whoever‘s Xohm WiMax tested in B-more with speedy results. And now, news from a Xohm employee in Baltimore is that the service is also live and working (albeit in an “unsupported” test capacity) in Chicago, Boston, Dallas, Philadelphia, Washington D.C. and northern Virginia. So anyone with WiMax-enabled hardware in those cities, let us…

Tech News John Mahoney Oct 6

Mysterious Edge PC Promises Mobile DSL

CTIA is officially over, but the folks at Edgetech have left our imaginations running with a mysterious little computer/UMPC called PC Edge. Not much is known about the device (no word on OS, processor or hardware details), though we did manage to get some info from a company rep via a quick phone call. So…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez Mar 30

EV-DO Rev B to Debut This Year at 9Mbps Speeds

EV-DO fans can expect a juicy speed boost later this year when Qualcomm releases EV-DO Rev B, an update to the just launched Rev A. The new version of mobile broadband will use a spiced up chipset that’ll allow for download speeds of up to 9.3Mbps (topping Rev A’s 800kbps download speeds). https://gizmodo.com/verizon-ups-its-ev-do-network-to-rev-a-233170 So what…

Tech News Louis Ramirez Mar 26

Sprint EX720: The Must-have Card For the Net Addicted

We’ve had our eye on Sprint’s EX720 mobile broadband card for quite some time now and the folks at SlashGear recently got the chance to take it for a test spin. Performance-wise, the card averaged impressive download speeds of 826 kb/s with upload speeds of 103 kb/s. It runs on Macs, but you’ll need BootCamp…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez Mar 6

Sony Ericsson PC300 Does 4 Flavors of Wireless

Amidst the barrage of phones they introduced this morning, Sony Ericsson quietly released their first mobile broadband card capable of supporting 4 types of wireless—HSDPA, UMTS, EDGE, and GPRS. The card will get you 3.6 MBps of download speed and it’s been fitted with an integrated antenna, so you don’t have to worry about accidentally…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez Feb 6

Verizon Ups its EV-DO Network to Rev A

Good news for all you mobile broadband lovers. Verizon Wireless today launched its EV-DO Rev. A network along with the USB720 wireless modem ($149 with 2-year plan), which is pretty much what we used back during CES. The modem combined with the speedier network will give you download speeds of around 450-800 kilobits per second.…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez Feb 1

Sprint Gives Rev A EV-DO a Shot in the Arm

Sprint’s Rev 3 EV-DO, Gizmodo’s Internet IV during CES, is getting another upgrade. Firstly, those express cards we told yas about are now official under the Novatel EX720 moniker. Even better, the speeds are getting all jacked up, hitting 600 kbps to 1.4 mbps for downloads and 350-500 mbps kbps for uploads. That means you’ll…

Tech News Adam Frucci Jan 30

Novatel’s First EV-DO Rev A ExpressCards Coming Soon?

Back at CES we rocked the mobile broadband with Novatel’s U720 USB dongle. Reception was solid and fast, and it kept us posting throughout the show. Ideally, however, we would’ve liked an ExpressCard version that would jive with our notebooks. Well, it looks like our dreams might be answered soon. Here is an in-the-wild shot…

Tech News Louis Ramirez Jan 26

Leaked 2009 Roadmap of Sprint’s 4G WiMax Rollout

Virgin Mobile Pay-As-You-Go Mobile Broadband Is Predictably Expensive

Giz Explains: Why Cellphone Reception Still Sucks

Sprint Adds Laptop Access To Their Simply Everything Plan For $150

How To: Tether the iPhone or G1 To Your Laptop For Free 3G Broadband

Huawei i-Mo Acts as 3G Modem and Wi-Fi Router all in One Bite-Sized Package

Sony Vaio P Modded To Accept SIM Cards, 3G via HSDPA Connection

Netgear Jumps in the Mobile Broadband Game With the WWAN 3G Mobile Broadband Router

Verizon Rolling Out Superfast LTE Mobile Broadband Next Freakin’ Year

HP Mini 1000 Netbook Now Shipping With 3G Internet Capability

Tectoy Zeebo Gaming System Uses Free 3G Connection to Distribute Games

Start Your WiMax Engines With Laptops From Acer, Asus, Lenovo and Toshiba

Xohm’s WiMax Coverage Quietly Live and Working in Six More Cities

Mysterious Edge PC Promises Mobile DSL

EV-DO Rev B to Debut This Year at 9Mbps Speeds

Sprint EX720: The Must-have Card For the Net Addicted

Sony Ericsson PC300 Does 4 Flavors of Wireless

Verizon Ups its EV-DO Network to Rev A

Sprint Gives Rev A EV-DO a Shot in the Arm

Novatel’s First EV-DO Rev A ExpressCards Coming Soon?

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