Cingular still buddying up with Lenovo for embedded HSDPA
Posted Aug 23rd 2006 4:15PM by Brian White
Filed under: Cellular, Hardware, Business
The Thinkpad T60 notebook received
embedded UMTS/HSDPA wireless data technology just recently, and the former IBM product appears to be buddying up with Cingular for more built-in wireless data bundling into mid-rage and high-end notebooks.
This is good news, but does limit consumer choice to a point. Sure -- anyone can use a PC Card modem from Verizon, Sprint Nextel, Cingular or anyone else, but with an embedded solution -- if you choose it as a customer -- limits you to one carrier at this time, with Lenovo at least.
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