Big news on the wireless front… Dell will be including EVDO as a built-in option which will give you WAN as well as Wi-Fi LAN access. Pretty cool stuff! I am waiting on an EVDO card for my older Dell work system… having it all built in would be even nicer.
But the service requires customers to purchase a separate wireless card to slide into a laptop. Beginning early next year, the technology will be built directly into some of a line of Dell portable computers called the Latitude series. The service also requires a monthly subscription and annual contract. Verizon Wireless is negotiating with other laptop makers and is expected to announce shortly a similar deal with Lenovo Group Ltd., the maker of ThinkPad-brand laptops, according to a person familiar with those talks. [WSJ.com]