If you’re looking for some sweet speeds for cruising the Internet on your laptop and you’re a Verizon customer, be sure to check out the AirCard 595 from Sierra Wireless.
Available for $99 from the Verizon store (or $50 with two-year agreement), this bad boy is one of the first EV-DO Rev. A cards available to Verizon customers. The card can also be used on Verizon Wireless’ CDMA and standard EV-DO networks, so no matter what you’re covered with this card. You can pick one up online or in stores come January.
Verizon Wireless and Sierra Wireless offer the AirCard 595 PC card [Slashphone]
Has anyone compared these cards to tethering an EV-DO ready phone to a laptop as modem? It’s only an additional $15 a month to extend a Verizon Wireless unlimited Data plan to include the BBE Connect (smartphone tethering).
I’d be interested to see that comparison as well, but the convenience of having a PCMCIA card always with the card can’t be beat – plus what if you actually want to take calls while you’re on the internet?
Cingular needs to bring their HSPDA in a hurry and crush these CDMA followers!
(just mad about my weak EDGE speeds…)
Cingular is sooo behind the times with their HSPDA. My guess is that by the time they have it rolled out to their entire network EV-DO rev A will be have such a larger market that no one will care because Rev B will already be on it’s way in. Cingular picked the wrong network and screwed itself for wireless data.
If you are on the Sprint network, a really useful hack is with their Sprint PCS vision service. If you have their power vision service (which costs around 10 dollars a month), you get internet service on the phone which can then be used on your computer via the USB cord or even bluetooth. It is extremely fast internet too. You just have to stop sending usage data to Sprint, which is just a feature on your site. More information can be found at http://www.sprintusers.com . Don’t hold me to it, but I believe with sprint it is EV-DO.
Amit
Amit
Thanks for the info, I’m a sprint user and it is EV-DO Rev A. I’m upgrading to an EV-DO phone in a few weeks when I get my next bonus check. I’m actually excited to try this.
Just in time, I think I’m on the hinge of the first 30 days on my Verizon Kyocera KPC650. Hopefully my vendor will be able to switch me out to these EVDO-A cards and I can actually send emails that are 1mb when it rolls out. Right now, multiple meg emails take forever…
What I’d really like to see is a PCMIA card for ClearWire. I’m not sure where it is all available but I’ve seen some pretty good speeds on it in Seattle.
This in my opinion would only be newsworthy if a satellite provider offered the same software/hardware service at the same price, otherwise as soon as you leave the country – you are right back where you started from. I was hoping we would be beyond the need for cell phone towers by now… I guess a few more year have yet to pass before this comes true :-(
Jon
Jon,
My guess is that a ClearWire/WiMAX portable would. They currently have service in multiple countries on the same ClearWire Network. Unfortunatly I don’t know enough about the technology to be certain.
Any Geeks know enough about WiMAX to say?