2.4 Megabit Cellular Modem

lew writes: "Ars has a review of a cellular modem that provides 2.4 megabits / second downsteam and 153 kilobits / second upsteam... and it works! Check it out" How much for unmetered service on such a system? :)

great...

[Artifex]

I can use my Voicestream unlimited weekend minutes to trade Jamie Curtis movies and pictures, now...

Great

[Hemos (editor)]

Now I can stream uber-quality DivX-encoded movies to my phone and view them on a sexy mushroom-colored screen the size of my big toe ;-)

I Got Paid To Place This Text Ad, And You Can Too! [monolinux.com]

Better question

[Arcturax]

How long before there are enough Quake and Home Porn/Warez servers filling the airwaves with frags and grainy shots of Britney Spears to make it as slow as a 56k connection on a bad phone line.

Eww, just think, I could have a pirated copy of Windows XP wisping its way through my body in the form of radio waves. That alone might add credence to the celluar gives cancer argument.

No thanks

[marian]

The pathetic upstream bandwidth implies to me that the only use this is going to see is faster downloads to your phone of targeted ads.

Snowcrash

[tswinzig]

Now perhaps I've been reading too much Neal Stephenson lately, but...

Do I foresee roving bands of samurai-warrior-programmers with laptops and wearable interfaces to the 'metaverse'?

Yes I do!

Well, maybe not Samurai Warriors, but pale geeks, surely! (And soon, perhaps not so pale?)

Could the stereotypical geek image change from pasty-faced teens languishing in a darkened computer room to well-traveled, olive-skinned men on beaches with laptops? (Oooh, look, live porn! ... no wait, those are just real girls getting a suntan.)

How much will civilization change when high-tech commuters can work from anywhere -- literally?

Re:that's PER CELL

[the_2nd_coming]

I can just see it now:

Scene: AirPort Terminal;

Business man : WTF!!! how come it is taking so frigen long to down load my itinerary from the company? man this service sucks ass, not letting me download a frigen 4k file!!

1337 Kiddy: cool dude!! I almost got Office XP Downloaded from Kazaz to my Pocket PC!!!

Re:that's PER CELL

[Max Threshold]

The likelihood of everyone clicking at once is very low...

And this, fellow /.ers, is where the whole plan falls apart. I can hear the execs in their boardroom now: "Damn you Taco!"

now wait a minute...

[ultramk]

...one of the reasons i go outside is to get away from the broadband. Wonderful. Now my clients will be emailing me while I'm at lunch.

"I asked you to make those changes to the site 10 minutes ago, why aren't they up yet?"

Oh yeah, I can't wait.

mk-

Whoa.

[yzquxnet]

You mean, I could come outside of my house. To be able to wander about and still retain the same technical savvy. I'm.. Uh.. I don't know if I can handle it.