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Old 07-19-2003, 06:16 PM
caywen
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Originally Posted by OneAngryDwarf
Yeah bluetooth would be fine except that i want to use it w/ existing WLANs/hotspots... i had a pcmcia one for my old IPaq and just am anxious to get the ability back again... thanks for the posts
Me too, but I decided that $30 per month is too much to spend for occasional browsing. Information I often find online I can usually buy at a newspaper stand for $0.25 (weather, news, sports, etc).

I also decided that since WiFi is neither free nor ubiquitous, I'm going to wait until late 2004 to worry about having a truly wireless device. Maybe the XDA2 will be nice...

In the meanwhile, bluetooth networking in my house and my workplace suffices nicely. AvantGo gives me free offline browsing and I usually find the bits of news I read are not more than an hour old since my device is continuously sync'd at work or home and it never takes more than an hour to where I want to go.

IMO, WiFi is nifty but really really overrated in terms of actual usefulness.
 
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