Gizmodo's Sean Captain says cellular broadband, not fixed wireless, is the future of wireless access.

In comparison to cellular, Captain writes, "using Wi-Fi around town is like panhandling. You schlep from coffee shop to coffee shop, looking for bandwidth handouts; or you rummage through the neighborhood airwaves, searching for unencrypted home networks."

Cingular, Verizon and Sprint now offer various high-speed mobile access options, and Captain says it's "as liberating as getting a drivers license and no longer having to ask mom and dad for rides to the mall."

"If you're someone who needs to be connected all the time -- say a journalist filing articles from the field -- consider a wireless broadband plan," Captain suggests. And he's right: I'm filing this blog entry today, as well as two articles, using a Mac PowerBook G4 connected to a Treo 700p over Verizon's all-you-can-eat data plan...