Many of us are familiar with the concept of “bill shock” – that feeling we get when we glance at our cell phone bill and the number is waayyy higher than we expected. That unpleasant sensation may go the way of the dodo, due to a deal struck between the FCC and major wireless carriers which aim to eliminate the institution of bill shock altogether.
Five billion people, or almost everyone in the world, now own a cell phone, the Christian Science Monitor reported. But the predominance of mobile broadband internet is actually growing much faster. A UN report recently found that mobile internet subscription surged to 872 million last year, an increase from 2009 of more than 300 million people.
Proud of their progress, Verizon Wireless has been enthusiastically planning rollouts and ad campaigns for its 4G LTE devices. One of Verizon’s phones has certainly taken a leading role in the 4G LTE cellphone race while another, soon to be released, is bound to be an even bigger hit with consumers especially Android lovers. The two Android 0/S powered phones are of course the HTC Thunderbolt and Motorola Droid Bionic, respectively.
Maybe you really don’t like to carry a lot of stuff around and can’t bear to deal with too much with it comes to technology. This doesn’t mean you should lose to ability to connect. For those of us who need internet connectivity on devices such as laptops and tablets, a simple solution comes with owning an iPhone.
Today’s on-the-go crowd is a fairly advanced, technologically adept set of people. These tech savvy travelers are almost always the proud owners of smartphones. What with the ability to condense so much into one little device, they’re the perfect machine for those who travel either casually or professionally.
Did you know that the towers that provide you with cellular phone reception also provide you with wireless Internet? Well Novatel did, and used such knowledge to create mobile WiFi hotspot routers.
