Wi-Fi is for Wussies
Filed in archive Mobile by jeff goldman on August 30, 2006

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...
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