HSDPA (High-Speed Downlink Packet Access) will not be making it into the next revision of Intel’s Centrino platform (Santa Rosa), as Nokia and Intel have decided to scrap development. The two companies had announced plans last September for an HSDPA module that would enable laptops with the chipset to go online via a wireless 3G network and allow users to transition between 802.11b/g/n and 3G networks seamlessly.In a statement, the companies said that the potential returns from supporting HSDPA wasn’t strong enough to justify the investment needed to include it in Santa Rosa, but the companies would continue to collaborate on other technologies. "We both saw that there was not an adequate business case," Nokia spokesperson Eija-Riitta Huovinen told Reuters.
Source: Ars Technica
I would say I care but then again I have no problem using bluetooth pairing to get a connection.
Would’ve been nice to have HSDPA in a notebook however. For the professional business users out there.