On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 4:26 AM, Hugo Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 09:28:02PM -0500, Mark Arvidson wrote: > > I use my phone's > > EDGE capabilities while riding across Texas to the next family event... > > > > As it is, I don't use Wifi much (of course, I don't have it on my phone > > yet). There are very few free places to use it around here, and their > > ranges are rather limited. Traveling at 75 mph down a highway means > > hotspots come and go in a few seconds, so that's not even a potential > > problem solver for me. > > I'm almost precisely the opposite use case. I'm almost always > somewhere with stable wireless access. I don't really care too much > about fast data access over the phone network, but having > 802.11(whatever) in the device is a must for me. > > Hugo. I myself am also much closer to Hugo. If I want access to data, I'm usually near someplace with wireless access and would rather use Wifi because it is free or cheaper. I also don't think it's wise to drive down a highway and using a browser, email, or typing in the terminal (hopefully you're the passenger) - but WiMAX could provide that capability. We are starting to see a push to integrate WiMAX & WiFi into the same chipsets and this will only become more common. I think WiFi is popular enough & the integration of WiMAX would make it questionable to not include these technologies together & warrant a seperate module for WiFi/WiMax. Wouldn't the areas that currently support 3G also be more likely to quickly adopt a 4G technology like WiMax? Why not skip 3G and go straight to 4G?
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