The Jeff Pulver Blog: Living the EVDO Lifestyle

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February 16, 2005

Living the EVDO Lifestyle

In just a few short days, the way I access the internet, while not at home or at work has changed. While in the past I was only able to reliably access the net while in transit when I was inside of a Wi-Fi hotspot, walking around with an EVDO card means that “always on” has reached a new level.

Being able to have at least ‘better than dialup’ and mostly ‘broadband’ speeds while in transit has already contributed on an incremental basis to my productivity…although I understand there are some people at my office who enjoyed the fact that I used to be offline while in transit. ;-)

I find the user interface on my Sony Vaio laptop to be much easier to navigate and just use than the best of the best PocketPC devices and RIM devices available today in the marketplace.

When it comes to email, I happen to be a text based Luddite. I’m a firm believer in using applications like putty and pine which provides me ubiquitous access to email. Using putty/pine works well even on dialup speeds so having access to EVDO means that I’m never far away from being on email.

In the past few days I’ve taken advantage of EVDO in and around Washington, D.C., at the airport gate and at my seat on a couple of flights prior to takeoff due to flight delays as well as in the back of New York City taxis. In each case, so far, the service has worked flawlessly.

I’m currently thinking about the kinds of applications which will start to happen as the result of knowing that dependable high-speed mobile internet access is available in a metropolitan area. One immediate enhancement that I would like to see is the addition of a web browser into my car’s GPS system so that I can easily Google a location and then build a real-time route to it. I have to be believe this kind of application will become available sometime real soon.

Welcome to the EVDO Lifestyle...

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