<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 4:26 AM, Hugo Mills <<a href="mailto:hugo-om@carfax.org.uk">hugo-om@carfax.org.uk</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 09:28:02PM -0500, Mark Arvidson wrote:<br>
> I use my phone's<br>
> EDGE capabilities while riding across Texas to the next family event...<br>
><br>
> As it is, I don't use Wifi much (of course, I don't have it on my phone<br>
> yet). There are very few free places to use it around here, and their<br>
> ranges are rather limited. Traveling at 75 mph down a highway means<br>
> hotspots come and go in a few seconds, so that's not even a potential<br>
> problem solver for me.<br>
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I'm almost precisely the opposite use case. I'm almost always<br>
somewhere with stable wireless access. I don't really care too much<br>
about fast data access over the phone network, but having<br>
802.11(whatever) in the device is a must for me.<br>
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Hugo.</blockquote><div><br>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.<br>
<br>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?<br>
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