Comments on: Sitting in Logan Airport- good thing I have a UMPC

By: scott

scott — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 20:14:47 +0000

thank you. Ihave Edge and knew it wasnt too fast, I need to make the switch

By: jk

jk — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 14:52:53 +0000

Scott, EVDO is about 5-6+ times faster than EDGE.

By: scott

scott — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 13:08:52 +0000

First Post…Guys quick question:

Is EVDO much faster than EDGE from CIngular and Tmobile?

By: jk

jk — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 20:27:05 +0000

This is why I love you guys. You give great feedback and ask great questions. Firstly, you caught me, Mike. I only needed the table space to enjoy my cheeseburger and onion rings from Johnny Rockets. I could easily have used Flash in my hands but since the table was there…

Secondly, I hooked Flash up to the Portable Power Station so the battery would be fully charged to watch Battlestar Galactica on the plane(which I did).

Could I have done all this with a Tablet or laptop? Of course I could, but if the table had not been there it would have been difficult.

Re: the Bluetooth tethering vs. USB: for simple email checking BT speed would have been sufficient, but I also wanted to check my 300+ RSS feeds. For that I wanted the extra bandwidth that USB tethering provides. Even more importantly the XV6700 gets charged when it’s connected via USB so it was a win-win situation.

Mike, I see the UX is no longer on your “worst device ever” list and is now on your gadget lust list :)

By: bobm

bobm — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 17:24:38 +0000

The only thing better is using my Ev-Do over bluetooth. I might be giving up a bit of speed and battery life but it works like a dream.

By: Mike Cane

Mike Cane — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:32:30 +0000

>>>These are the moments that UMPCs live for, a little bit of table space,

TABLE SPACE?!!? You pig! You toady of The Man! You poor enslaved fool! Here I am in NYC’s Winter Garden tap-tap-tapping this. Sure, I’m at a table, but with the Nokia 770, I *nevah* have to beg The Man for table space!! Liberate yourself! Upgrade to the UX280P! (Since jk knows me, not only don’t I need no stinkin’ table space, I don’t need no stinkin’ smiley, neither!)

BTW, Dynamism will be selling the Vega!! Oh, is that battery life tempting! It’s like the 770′s. (UX faints ~2 hrs!)

By: JG

JG — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 14:13:22 +0000

Sure, lucky you with EVDO. And if you rich over 2Mbps. What is not true always with EVDO (?).

For the rest of us, BT (800kbps) is still faster than external data connection of cellular phone, isn’t it?

Certainly, we all wishes more WiFi and free.
For example within a City of London I had no problems to find free Wifi almost everywhere…

But maybe I’m still optimist too much. :-)

By: Kevin C. Tofel

Kevin C. Tofel — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 13:53:56 +0000

JGUI, while you can Bluetooth tether the Q1, USB tethering is approximately 3x faster in terms of throughput. I’ll carry the cable. ;)

By: JGUI

JGUI — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 13:19:10 +0000

What phone do you use? Why USB cable?

I connect Q1 to phone by Bloetooth. Simplier. One cable miss.

By: Tim Marman

Tim Marman — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 12:57:43 +0000

Yep – EVDO is, as I’ve said before, disruptive. You simply no longer worry about connectivity… you just assume it’s there.

The only problem I’ve had lately is speed. I’ve been getting abysmal speeds in NYC – I can only guess that the network is saturated with all the EVDO phones etc at this point. Hopefully that improves soon.