You have really got to make some decisions when your buying technology now. It’s not about the single unit: What computer do I buy? It’s about netbooks with integrated wireless, external wireless. Do you wait on the iPad? Do you get the 3G version or just the wireless version? What about iPhone vs. Blackberry or even the Droid. Technology and the available of this technology has forced many of you to make decisions that you are only able to make because you are being educated by the sales(person) at that particular store.
Verizon and AT&T swear that their data coverage is faster and better:
Sprint is killing both of you where we are. I have the fortunate, but also unfortunate opportunity to reside in a place which stares through the technological CRT windows 10 years into the future while the rest of the world, and country embraces and moves forward with technology: Birmingham, Alabama. CahabaWeb has used Sprint mobile broadband access for 33 months. Yes, that is almost 3 years. We have never had a single problem with Sprint data service. This deserves giant letters:
I have never had a single problem, with Sprint data services in 33 months of use.
Did you read that? Amazing huh?
The Super Flexible Mobile Concept
I hate the thought of companies “giving” users netbooks and embedding the only data connection into that hardware. So limiting.
A) Sprint mobile broadband hotspot: Size of a credit card, keep it in your pocket and connect all of your mobile internet devices to it. iPad touch, netbook, notebook,desktop etc etc. Use it for traveling internet on EVERYTHING. Free device – $60 per month.
B) Flip phone: Honestly, I am to the point that I can’t stand the fact that my data, app and surfing usage is interrupted by a PHONE CALL! OMG! You just jammed my Pandora stream to tell me that?!?!?! Cheap, low cost throw-away flip phone. Phones are dead. Let’s split them from the data device already. We use txt to communicate for business much of the time. Txt is still majorly in play on a small device.
C) iPod touch. This gives you ALL of the usage and flexibility of the iPhone without the CONTRACT, 2 years of your life, replacement cost if damaged, and AT&T’s lousy data service. If you are rolling on the Sprint hotspot, your iPod touch be even cooler than the iPhone – plus it will never ring…UNLESS – you use Skype and bluetooth for your calls over the sprint mobile broadband, but that is a completely different story.
D) ASUS Netbook: Normally, I would not recommend netbook or even Windows. But, if you are going iPod touch – Umbuntu will not like you. Asus and a couple of other brands of notebooks have a quickboot linux OS that will let you run skype etc without a full boot desktop boot.
E) MacBook: 9 out of 10 high school and college students will tell you that they want/need a MAC. 10 out of 10 probably can’t tell you why, from a performance perspective and pricing perspective that it is what they need. No clue – it reflects the power of trend and marketing. Huge props on functionality, don’t get me wrong. I have seen small hardware on MAC back in the OS9 days run circles around the same hardware type on Windows. MAC is great. Unfortunately, still 99 out of 100 real world business people that we deal with on a daily basis use……Windows. Your call on the notebook.
Hey, if you have any ideas or maybe an even BETTER Super Mobiler experience, please comment below!
