Originally published July 18 2005
New laptop accesses internet over cell phone network.
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
The new Sony Vaio T350 notebook gives you the ability to access the Web using a traditional wireless phone network, which covers a vastly broader area than traditional WiFi.
Accessing the Web at any point in between -- in other words, over most of the globe -- was problematic at best.
However, with the release of the Vaio T350 notebook in May, Sony (NYSE: SNE) Latest News about Sony began a bid to change that by building in cellular technology that gives the notebook the ability to access the Web using a traditional wireless phone network, which covers a vastly broader area than traditional WiFi.
The notebook carries an internal modem designed to work with the EDGE technology deployed across the national network of Cingular Wireless Latest News about Cingular.
The move could have significant ramifications, and analysts say limitations -- including being tied to a single mobile carrier -- might keep uptake slow at first.
Analysts note that cellular access is already possible with the use of PC connectivity cards as well, which could dampen demand for new, out-of-the-box machines with hefty price tags.
That could leave an opening for the approach Sony is taking with the T350.
And it's one that wireless carriers will likely pounce on because it offers an opportunity to make use of data networks already in place or on the drawing board to drive new revenue.
Second, because wireless networks are constantly changing both in terms of ownership and in terms of technology -- faster in fact than most people use up their personal computers -- users might be reluctant to be tied to any given carrier or technology for a long period of time.
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