Sony Ericsson's GC89 quad-band EDGE/WiFi laptop card
Maybe less of a big deal given that these days it's getting harder and harder to buy a laptop without built-in WiFi,
but today Sony Ericsson rolled out the GC89, their new quad-band EDGE/802.11g wireless laptop card. You already know what you can do with the WiFi part of the card, but if you sign up for a data plan from a wireless carrier that offers EDGE (that means Cingular and AT&T Wireless here in the US) you should be able to get decently fast download speeds of around 100-130 kbps (though it can clock as high as 247 kbps under ideal conditions that you'll never actually experience) to your laptop pretty much anywhere you can find cellphone coverage. We'd dig being able to seamlessly roam between 802.11g and EDGE, but that probably isn't in the cards, at least not for right now. The GC89 should be in stores early next year.