[Cialug] Mobile Internet

[Jeff Davis]

If the computing power and bandwidth was there, I would be open
to using my mobile device (aka phone) for everything.
Although to bring this back to the mailing list focus...
the OS on the device becomes more important when it's
all I'm using.

Note that some things need a full keyboard and monitor.
(It would be difficult to PVP in WoW on my Centro.)
So as long as I can use bluetooth or some other wireless
technology for KVM at the coffee shop, etc. then I'll go for it.

-Jeff

Matthew Nuzum wrote:
> On 6/4/08, Dave Weis <djweis at internetsolver.com> wrote:
>>> I still think the future is wimax. Then again I also think that half
>>> the people with computers won't need a PC in a few years because
>>> everything they need a computer for will be done with something that
>>> looks more like an iPhone than a PC. And who'd want to pay for DSL
>>> service just for their iphone?
>>>
>>  I don't see whymax going very far. There's enough other problems such as
>> coverage, interference, NIMBY types not allowing more towers, number of
>> clients per access point, backhaul, etc. They might pull it off but I think
>> it will be more because of how much the cellular industry has lowered
>> people's expectations of anything wireless than whymax being a huge success.
>>
> 
> I don't think wimax is better than dsl/etc. I just think that
> stationary computers are going to become less common as more mobile
> devices come into the market. Everyone on this mailing list has or
> wants a device like an iphone that lets them look up maps, wikipedia,
> games, or whatever.
> 
> Wimax has beaten LTE to the market by 2 years (so they say) and the
> LTE people have started discussing ways to make LTE compatible with
> wimax [1] so that there will be only one standard mobile data
> connection format across the world. But if wimax doesn't win it
> doesn't matter, something wireless will replace DSL.
> 
> In a few years we'll say, "remember when computers were so big that
> you had to set them on a desk all the time? Even portable computers
> were called 'laptops' because they were so big you had to set them on
> your lap to use them! To get on the net you had to be at home or a
> 'hotspot!'"
> 
> Anything that requires you to plug a wire into it to use it will be a
> transitory technology and limited to the ultra-geeky. Kind of like the
> older cable TV remote boxes the size of a cigar box that had a long
> wire from your TV to your couch and a dozen 3 position buttons.
> 
> IMHO. :-)
> 
> [1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7425756.stm

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