Coffee Break- Another Case for MiFi

I am sitting here in Starbucks happily working away on the HP Mini 1000 with the 6-cell battery. The Mini 1000 is showing it wants to provide me with six hours of juice, which is a princely amount, and in spite of what some have said about how ugly the battery is, it’s not bad to work with it attached:

Mini front

The battery on the bottom gives the netbook just the right ergonomic tilt to make typing easier than with the flush, standard battery. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.

This work session in the coffee shop has given me another reason to like the Verizon MiFi that hadn’t occurred to me before.

I’m on the Starbucks Wi-Fi on the HP, so I didn’t need the MiFi that was in my little gear bag. A little while ago, I wanted to send the above photo from my 3G iPhone to the HP via email. AT&T wasn’t cooperating with me, however, as my email would not send; in fact, the iPhone couldn’t access the web at all, even with three bars of signal. I’ve seen problems with the AT&T network over the last few weeks in Houston, and today was worse than ever. I couldn’t send the email from the phone no matter what.

Then it hit me that I could use the Verizon 3G network to send email from the iPhone with the MiFi. I took it out of the bag, hit the power button and the iPhone connected to the Verizon network via Wi-Fi through the MiFi router. Bingo, email sent. I received it on the HP and the rest is history. I love this MiFi more each day I use it.

I know, I know, you can officially call me a hardcore MiFi and you’d be right. I’ve been called worse. To prove I’m one, after this I’m stopping by the Verizon store down the street and pretending the MiFi isn’t working and that I need a new one. They’re not released until the 17th, remember.  I’m not bad, I’m just drawn this way.

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