Sony Ericsson pops out MD400 / MD400g HSPA USB modems
By Darren Murph 
posted June 17th 2008 9:07AM
posted June 17th 2008 9:07AM
posted June 17th 2008 9:07AM
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Does is work with the iPhone?
No, it replaces iPhone :-)
@lilo,
Hmmmm, I didn't know that this thing is a cell phone!!
Lamer.
Stick it in your mac air and use it as a very large cellphone, but watch out you don't cut your ear off
They look very nice and all but is there any benefit of this over a generic unit provided by companies when you sign up for a mobile broadband plan.
The price of this unit could lower and you should not have to sign the contract. If it is cheaper than the vodafone modems I could buy one.
Well, I'd be surprised if this was less than £40 (the price I can get a 3 Modem in the UK) but yeah, that would be about the only benefit and I would definitely get one of these if they were the same price.
Probably no benefit, but it's always good to have more devices in the market. It will boost competition and ultimately drive the price of all devices down (hopefully). They may also just ship thousands of these things to networks and they may be bundled up with HSDPA deals.
Am... I would not agree with a price thing. Just look at netbook market, the competition made everything worse, now most of them cost as standard laptop expect a few of them.
It's sony, perhaps it comes with a free rootkit that disables all music playback on your notebook! there's your value added.
no linux support?
dam that'd suck
Integrated GPS? Cool!!
ill definitely pick up the gps one. what bands will this baby have? im definitely tired of waiting for tmobile to drop something similar. i might have to consider leaving for the devil (at&t).
Great stuff! Only issue: I would need to have them in a week... Any ideas what to buy now (no, don't want to sign-up for a data plan here in the US right now, need it for oversea's travel). Thanks!
Tri-band? Tri-band?? Tri-band??? TRI-BAND???? Hello, any reporters there with brain-cells functioning???
I would so get this but I'm not really sure how they work (an explanation would be great ^_^ ), are these sorts of modems tied to carriers? I am also assuming I'd have to have a separate plan for this device as well? Still I'd say its worth it in that I'd get internet just about anywhere and it looks quite cool.
You can buy the card but obviously need a plan to access the network. I imagine they have a SIM card inside just like a mobile phone. They'll probably be offered subsidized with plan in the US.
In Europe there are pretty attractive pay-as-you-go 3G data plans - you just buy a certain number of GB for a certain price and that's it. In a market economy that model would certainly win but in the U.S. hegemony of carriers it might take a while. Needless to say, I am a big fan of pay as you go plans... it's so easy, I can just go to Europe, walk into any mobile store, purchase a SIM for like $5 and get a to-go data plan for a fair price, fill it up when I run out, etc. Simple, easy, no 2 year commitments.
hope better than GC-75/79/83/ PC300, weak signal & get hang in few hours :(