PSA: Avoid Droid X Mobile Hotspot Charges, Carry a Pre Plus or Pixi Plus as a Backup
It appears Verizon is going to make good on their offer of giving all Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus owners free 5 GB of Mobile Hotspot usage per month, despite charging upcoming Droid X a 2 GB-for-$20 for the exact same service. The Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus were the first phones in […]
Sprint Nextel Launches Novatel S720 Aircard
This morning Sprint Nextel officially launched the Novatel Wireless S720 air card. The first EVDO rev A capable device in the U.S. Expected average speeds will be 450kbps-800kbps download, and 300kbps-400kbps upload. These speeds are not “peak data transfer rates”, and many Sprint Nextel EVDO rev O. customers currently enjoy speeds much higher than speeds […]
Sierra Announces EV-DO Rel A Aircard
Sierra Wireless today announced the AirCard 595, the first mobile broadband card to support EV-DO Release A, the next major network upgrade for Sprint and Verizon. EV-DO Rel A promises up to 3.1 megabits of download speed, and up to 1.8 megabits of upload speed. EV-DO Rel A will enable video conferencing and other upload-dependent […]
Sprint: Sierra AirCard 580 Updated
Sierra Wireless has issued an update to the AirCard 580. Connection Manager 3.1.6 is known to address issues with the device having difficulty connecting to EV-DO networks. AirCard 580 Update Page
Sprint: AirCard 580 EV-DO Released
Sprint has announced today that they are making available to business customers the Sprint version of the EV-DO enabled Sierra AirCard 580. Sprint also stated that this does not mark the launch of EV-DO on their network, simply that they are making the card available now to prepare customers to use EV-DO when it is […]
Sierra PC3300 Hits SprintPCS.com
Sprint has placed the Sierra Wireless PC3300 aircard on their web site for sale. The name change reflects Sierra’s buyout of AirPrime. Price is still $229.99.