In a few hours, the MID Moves project officially gets into gear. Jenn is already on her way to California where she’ll be getting the ball rolling with her OQO 2+, Benq S6 and Willcom D4. Then, on Tuesday, i’ll be feeding in along with Nicole and Ewan.
As a little side project I’d thought I would close down not only my home PC and netbook but also my broadband Internet connection. Using the XP-based MIDs (some confusion there I know – Intel tends to put UMPCs under the MID banner) I don’t think there will be a problem at all. If that 1.86Ghz OQO 2+ turns up (fingers crossed for tomorrow) then I’ve got that wonderful docking station to use. I’ll just connect to a monitor, drop a 3G card in and use the device as my desktop for a week. I really don’t expect to report any issues at all with this set up although I’m sure I’ll notice the drop from the 32mb/s on my broadband down to around 1mb/s that I get here at home!
I’ll be testing in Germany on T-Mobile’s day flat service (on a contract) the same on a pre-paid T-Mobile card, day-flat ‘Web Session’ on a Vodafone pre-pay, Vodafone on a 200MB per month contract and the 2.50-per-day ‘flat’ service from Fonic.
Stay tuned here and on MID Moves for updates during the week. Feel free to ask questions too.
Oh dear. I just realised I have to do some multi-way skype podcasts next week. Might have to break the ban for that otherwise no-one gets a listenable podcast for MID Moves!!
Why could it not be done remotely from being mobile?
Common don’t break down! Keep it real! :)
Sensible exceptions are OK of course!
No sense in demanding the impossible from mobile networks yet. The devices are up to it, but many will need to wait for LTE (4G) service to do away with wired broadband altogether. Just a few more years…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3GPP_Long_Term_Evolution
I broke the rule on Monday very quickly after I couldn’t get the OQO working with 3G but now it’s working, I’ll see what I can do to keep it on the 3G.
I havent used a PC yet this week but that’s easy with the OQO. I’ve got it hooked up to a monitor and it’s working realy really well.
Steve
aaah ok I’m confused now. At some point I was under the impression that the OQO was an UMPC (I still think so btw :)) then Engadget used the term MID? Then it turns out the OQO press release DID indeed use the term MID about it’s OQO.
However from your post I would read that the OQO is NOT a PC now? :) How much more Personal (Computer) can it get than being in your pocket WITH you!? :)
everyone wants fast broadband internet these days, i got some 5 mbps connection at home.~`.