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March 26, 2007
Free WiFi on a Bus and other Mobile Goodness
Last week I was pleasantly surprised to find WiFi freely available on the shuttle bus I took to a business park near Reading. I just had to try it so I whipped out my trusty PSP and voila! I was on the Internet in a just a few minutes. I was able to read a few blogs on the way to the Partners Meeting for Virtual Earth at Microsoft. I checked my email via browser as well but had to give up replying to an email as the bumpy ride and tedious text entry were too much to contend with. I opted to call instead to solve the missing presentation caper (spam blocker got my presentation I sent to a conference organiser from YouSendIt which I use for sending large files). I should remember that a call can be faster!
You may be saying, why bother with the web on the PSP, why not use a mobile phone? I am waiting for my dream phone - the Nokia N95 due next month in UK shops sporting WiFi, 3.5G, GPS, a great camera and advanced browser among other goodies. While this is going to be one bad phone, it will be smoked by the prototype one our partners is going to have on hand at our Summit. We showed it to the Microsoft Virtual Earth crew and Dr. Neil who founded the Via Virtual Earth Community with our mobile 3D demos which sparked some enthusiastic ideas for mobile 3D visualisation.
The next release of Virtual Earth due April 2 will be impressive! Stay tuned!
Posted by Ron Edwards at March 26, 2007 11:08 PM
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