At first glance, you might mistake this doodad on the left for an ordinary, run-of-the-mill thumbdrive. Don’t be fooled! It’s a 3G modem from AT&T called the USBConnect Quicksilver.
If you’re a weakling, you’ll love this thing because it weighs less than an ounce. Everyone, and I mean everyone, can lift one ounce, so less than one once should be a cakewalk.
According to SlashPhone the Quicksilver is the first device of its kind to use the new Icera Livanto chipset, which accounts for its pocketability. The modem handles GSM/GPRS/EDGE/3G data.
The price with a two-year contract is $100 plus there’s a $100 mail-in rebate available, which makes this little guy a wheel of a deal. Just don’t lose it, eh?
We have just tried our first in the district and it seems to have a lot of problems/issues with Dell hardware.
Is anybody else having this problem?
I am having lots of problems. It started out great, but after a few days the whole thing went downhill. I have uninstalled and reinstalled the quicksilver. That didn’t help. I have been on the phone with AT&T 3 times in two days and will be calling again today.
My connection at first lasted until I shut down. Now it will stay connected for approximately 3 minutes and then it tells me I am going at “limited connectivity.” Then I cannot load any new pages because they will time out. I am so sick of this!
They ran me through all the fixes and suggested I check google but I figured out there was a conflict with my other usb port; whenever I plug another device in it has the same problem. I’m still looking for a fix.
This would be great with an unlimited plan. At a 5 ghz cap is it worth it?
I’ve had the same problems as “Re”. It worked fine for the first two days, but today (day 3) it won’t even open my yahoo or gmail. Yesterday it wouldn’t open ebay, but today it did. However, it wouldn’t open a game site where I was able to play yesterday.
I work at home in a very rural area and have been using HugheNet (which I absolutely hate!), but I may have to go back. Cannot afford to have this service continue this downward spiral.