Dell introduces Online Backup, more 3G for laptops
By Joshua Topolsky 
posted Jun 26th 2007 11:47AM
posted Jun 26th 2007 11:47AM
Dell didn't only drop the official announcement concerning its new Inspirons (both in the desktop and laptop variety), as well as the much-discussed, world's-seriously-thinnest-13-inch-laptop XPS m1330 -- it also managed to uncork the news that all its new widescreen laptops would be EV-DO and HSDPA ready (provided by Sprint, AT&T, or Verizon), and that the company is now offering an obviously named Dell Online Backup service to the tune of 3GB for Inspiron owners and 10GB for XPS users. We don't know much more than that at the moment, but we definitely like what we've heard thus far. Dell news keeps coming, stand by.
Now if we could all get FIOS service, all would be right in the world....
What? Only 3G? That's not even enough for part of Vista.
Oh That 3G... silly me.
HSDPA is often refered to as 3.5G, which you'd know if you lived in a country with 21st century mobile phone services. ;)
HSDPA gives me 3.6Mbps from Vodafone in UK for fixed price and unlimited data (except their caveat of 3GB downloads per month meaning unlimited).
Some Europeans MNOs are offering 7.2Mbps over HSDPA.
All of which goes to show why Apple iPhone needs 3G (1.5Mbps) at very least but preferable HSDPA in Europe, as it's EDGE or 2.75G is max 237Kbps or in most real life situations less than 100Kbps (i.e. some 12KBps) ... laughable.
Wow. Way to hijack the comments to try and make this about iPhone. Question: where the hell do you see iPhone mentioned in this blog posting? Nowhere? Then stop bringing that shit up, thanks.
But I thought there was some kind of law that every post and every blog and every news item had to mention the iPhone at least once.