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Gadgets
Gizmodo’s Mission Critical E3 Gear
1:30PM Matt Buchanan | Essential to our E3 coverage: Canon’s 5D Mark II’s made our liveblog shots effortless and awesome in any light, Sprint’s 3G network was our crucial lifeline in the bowels of convention centres, and UCC Black powered us. More »
Hardware
Netgear Jumps in the Mobile Broadband Game With the WWAN 3G Mobile Broadband Router
5:06AM Adrian Covert | 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. More »
Peripherals
Sprint Dual U300 Modem Will Connect to Both EVDO and WiMax
12:15AM John Herrman | Sprint’s partnership with WiMax provider ClearWire looks to be bearing some hardware fruit, with the release of the first dongle to combine 3G cellular and 4G capabilities. More »
Peripherals
Novatel Ovation MC760 Is World’s Smallest USB EVDO Modem
11:14PM Matt Buchanan | We’ve been loving Sierra’s U597 EVDO card for a while because the form factor is so damn tight, but it looks like they just got one-upped (downed?) by Novatel, whose Ovation MC760 Micro Modem is the world’s smallest EVDO Rev. USB modem. It’s got onboard GPS, an integrated microSD slot, and a dual band antenna system “for enhanced performance on network fringe areas.” We can’t wait to check it out (we’re mobile internet whores)—it’ll be on Verizon or Sprint by the end of the year. More »
Peripherals
Sprint Novatel EX720 EV-DO ExpressCard Now Comes With PC Card Adaptor
5:15AM Matt Buchanan | While we USB is our interface of choice for 3G laptop cards, ’cause it’ll work on anything and we switch laptops a lot, some people might still wanna leave a USB port free and fill up a standard PCMCIA slot instead. So Novatel’s EX720 Rev-A ExpressCard for Sprint, one of the first Rev. A ExpressCards, has been refreshed and now comes up with a PCMCIA adaptor for $US70 after rebate—the adaptor alone would run you $US50. It’s also got one touch activation, though you’ve still gotta install from a CD, unlike newer 3G cards. [EVDO Info] More »
Networks
Xohm Tested Out in Baltimore: Beats EVDO, Unsurprisingly
6:49PM Kit Eaton | Laptopmag went ahead and tested out Xohm WiMax goodness, now that it’s live in Baltimore. They jammed an ExpressCard Xohm into a Sony Vaio laptop, and compared it to a Kyocera EVDO card running on Verizon, at a spot where both signals were strong. The conclusion? Xohm beats EVDO for speed when doing intensive downloading, such as streaming video, or large file transfers—the top download speed they found for Xohm was 3.05Mbps while EVDO managed just 1.43MBps. So far so groovy, and Laptopmag gave a few more thumbs up to the system, like how it auto-connects when you plug in the adaptor, and the daily subscription options. But this isn’t much of a surprise—it’s designed to be faster—and for now Xohm’s coverage is severely limited, to say the least. Check out the link for the full picture. [Laptopmag] More »
Computers
Dell Studio 15 Laptops Packing EVDO Like Their Little Brother
4:00AM Mark Wilson | The world gasped when Dell’s Mini Inspiron 9 revealed its integrated 3G data, and now Dell is revealing their wider plan to integrate more 3G data cards into their computers. The new Studio 15 laptops feature an integrated EVDO card with a subscription available from Verizon or Sprint (the hardware is the same either way). It’s a US$150 add-on to any model in the line (about the same price a USB dongle will cost you), putting their cheapest EVDO Studio 15 at US$799. But note that Verizon is already offering a US$125 rebate with 2-year subscription, pretty much eating the upgrade price. Not bad at all, Dell. [Dell via bbGadgets] More »
Phones
Nokia 8208 Two-way Slider Phone Looks Like N-Series, But Isn’t Quite One
11:10AM Adrian Covert | Inadvertently posted to the Nokia site, the 8208 not only looks similar to the n96, the first non N-Series phone to feature a two-way slider. Part of Nokia’s music phone push, the phone features the 0-9 keys below the screen, and music player controls above the screen. In addition, the CDMA phone has a 3 Megapixel camera and EVDO Rev.A. No word on release date or price. [Electronista] More »
Networks
Official: Verizon Wireless Absorbing Alltel to Become Largest US Carrier
11:55PM Wilson Rothman | We mentioned it yesterday, but now Verizon Wireless is kissing and telling: It will pay around US$6 billion for Alltel, adding 13 million customers in 34 states to the Verizon subscriber ranks. That should put Verizon’s total at 80 million—high above AT&T’s last-reported 71 million customers. Though Alltel and Verizon share the same phone technology, Alltel serves rural markets that Verizon had not built out, so it should mean some nice network expansion too, and “seamless transition” for Alltel customers. Seems like the merger will be completed by the end of the year, and all things will be harmonious and groovy by the second year. We’re not seeing many problems with this—it’s certainly no Sprint-Nextel fiasco. Jump for press release with financial mumbo jumbo. More »
Networks
