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AN EARLY LOOK AT faster cell-phone speeds. ?When the EVO locked on to a WiMAX signal, the differenc?

By Glenn Reynolds

AN EARLY LOOK AT faster cell-phone speeds. “When the EVO locked on to a WiMAX signal, the difference was obvious. Web browsing became smoother, videos loaded more quickly and skipped less often, and streaming video live to the Web via Qik was much improved. The Android app provided by Speedtest.net reported download rates consistently over four megabits per second, compared to the consistent one megabit per second I saw using 3G on the same device in the same spot. (WiMAX seems to consume the phone battery faster, too, alas.) With the EVO’s hot spot feature, I got it to function like a pocket-size wireless router so that my laptop could share the connection.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on June 04, 2010 (boomark / email).