Comments on: Verizon preparing $100 Novatel MiFi 2200 Portable HotSpot?

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:02:46 +0000

I picked up the Mifi for $65.00 at Best Buy/w 2 year contract. 5 gigs for $59.99 a month.
Bring on unlimited for $69.00 a month, if not I’ll have to stick under 5g’s .05 per meg over.

By: Carol Sibley

Carol Sibley — Fri, 15 May 2009 21:41:28 +0000

I study malaria and travel a lot to Europe, SE Asia and various places in Africa. Does anyone know whether the Novatel MiFi Portable Intelligent HotSpot would be likely to work in fairly remote places? Cell phones are remarkably ubiquitous even in rural Africa, but I have no idea whether this device could provide mobile broad band under those circumstances..
Does anyone have insight into this?
Thanks,
Carol

By: Thomas J. Crawford

Thomas J. Crawford — Fri, 08 May 2009 03:16:41 +0000

Does the Novatel MiFi 2200 Portable HotSpot cost $100 per month?

By: Sedric James

Sedric James — Tue, 05 May 2009 02:28:55 +0000

Here is a thought – Sprint and Palm won’t release a date because they are going head to head with the IPhone – they need to see what’s in the new phone so they can Market accordingly. They had a big expensive Marketing flop with the Instinct saying it was the 1st IPhone killer advertising all that the IPhone didnt have and the Instinct does. Then the IPhone is release and it has GPS – a APP store and many upgrades that were great, and Sprint didnt expect that. The Pre is a great phone on its on from the video’s that I have seen- my guess is that Palm wants to pull the 1st gen IPhone users- well I had the 1st IPhone and I brought the Instinct for my son — after using it we gave it back to Sprint and got the 2nd gen IPhone…. Althought I want to get out of my AT&T plan many will feel like me and port there number over to get the Pre.. Not because the phone is sooooo much better but because I hate AT&T high ass rates……

By: monglo

monglo — Tue, 05 May 2009 00:52:40 +0000

this is great. I hope that it is low enough to encourage people to buy.

the issue is going to be convincing people of its use and effectiveness.

it is not immediately apparent to your average person what this thing even does.

when they understand that it is basically a combo cable modem and router that allows you to connect to the internet wirelessly anywhere, giving you the ability to connect a bunch of devices that use WiFi…

I think it will sell like hot cakes.

I think it is only a matter of time before it is incorporated into cars.

THE BIGGEST PROBLEM NOW?

get rid of that ridiculous 5 gigabyte limit on wireless data plans imposed by all carriers.

“unlimited” should mean unlimited, especially for a plan that costs > $100 per month!