Mobile Broadband As A Standard In New Laptops

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Written on Wednesday, October 01, 2008

I have been wondering for a while now, how long it would take before we would see mobile broadband (3G or not) as a standard in new laptops, the way wifi and bluetooth already are.

It seems not too far away.. Asus recently announced built-in 3G support in the new Asus EEE PC and now this:

Operators, along with laptop and chipset manufacturers are joining forces to push built-in support for mobile broadband, using a newly created mark that will signal that a laptop is ready to offer mobile Internet access.

Participating companies include 3, Asus, Dell, Ericsson, Lenovo, LG, Microsoft, Orange, Qualcomm, Telefónica Europe, Telecom Italia, TeliaSonera, T-Mobile, Toshiba and Vodafone. The mark is also backed by a US$1 billion marketing budget, to be spent in the next year. The mark, which looks like a stylized cloud or bird, will be on laptops in time for the holiday shopping season.

(Full article here)

Unfortunately we don't get to see it yet, but Christmas is not too far away, right?

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