- Feb 14, 2004
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I'll give some background: The Samsung i730 from Verizon is a PDA phone which can also access the Internet anywhere via their EVDO network. However, you cannot (legally) use the phone as a modem to access that network for your laptop. Why do you think that is?
I know they have a vested interested in dedicated hardware for that, because they sell their "Broadband Access" PCMCIA cards specifically for use with laptops. Other than that, it doesn't really make sense to me why they limit it to just the PDA for browsing. Is it just because there'd be more data going in and out of a laptop connection? I'd be all over the phone if it could do EVDO via a laptop (and had better battery life, and had a camera). *sigh*
I know they have a vested interested in dedicated hardware for that, because they sell their "Broadband Access" PCMCIA cards specifically for use with laptops. Other than that, it doesn't really make sense to me why they limit it to just the PDA for browsing. Is it just because there'd be more data going in and out of a laptop connection? I'd be all over the phone if it could do EVDO via a laptop (and had better battery life, and had a camera). *sigh*