{"id":177526,"date":"2010-01-13T14:10:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T19:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds.phonedog.com:\/\/a4b221c4135927edb0116f0dc538cdb9"},"modified":"2010-01-13T14:10:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T19:10:00","slug":"article-ces-stories-im-ready-for-wimax-overdrive-is-sprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/177526","title":{"rendered":"ARTICLE: CES Stories: I&#8217;m ready for WiMax overdrive. Is Sprint?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;\">CES 2010 Wrap-Up: Noah&#8217;s Top 5 Mobile Stories<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>4. I&#8217;m ready for WiMax overdrive. Is Sprint?<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/r.phonedog.com\/shared\/images\/2010\/1\/91347-nkCES2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Aaron and I both attended Sprint&#8217;s way-over-the-top press event launching their Overdrive 3G\/4G mobile hotspot. &#8220;Iron Chef&#8221; Mario Batali cooked at the event, and signed copies of his Italian Grill cookbook were handed out. I&#8217;m still not sure why he was there (okay, I am &#8211; to get people like me to write about the event), but that dude loves him some chili flakes in his arrabiata. Seriously, I love heat in my food, but his spicy tomato sauce was too much for me.<\/p>\n<p>But I digress. Overdrive is Sprint&#8217;s first WiMax product for the mass market. Since Aaron lives in an area &#8211; Charlotte, NC &#8211; that actually gets Sprint 4G service, he got our review loaner. Since Las Vegas also gets Sprint WiMax, Aaron tried Overdrive out while at CES:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Utilizing the 4G service in Las Vegas, I found that while the connection was incredibly fast (a noticeable difference over 3G), it disconnected on a regular basis. &nbsp;I was told that the issue was a result of the CES cell site traffic &#8211; we&#8217;ll see when I put it through its paces here in Charlotte.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">writeFlash({\"src\":\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/CT4y3cxbTqM\",\"width\":\"425\",\"height\":\"350\"});<\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p>I love the idea of 4G. I want me some 4G I want to ditch my home cable modem and my 3G USB data stick in favor of an Overdrive I can use at home, on the road, and everywhere in between. At $69.99\/month, Sprint&#8217;s WiMax is pricier than a home Cable line, but cheaper than Cable plus cellular data. But we ain&#8217;t there yet &#8211; not when the service is only available in a few dozen locals, not including New York, LA, or (selfishly) the San Francisco Bay Area. Later this year we&#8217;ll get us some WiMax coverage, I hope. Though it remains to be seen if Sprint&#8217;s WiMax can maintain the early mover advantage it currently holds over Verizon&#8217;s forthcoming LTE rollout.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Previous<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phonedog.com\/cell-phone-research\/blog\/ces-stories-webos-hits-verizon.aspx?utm_source=Rss&#038;utm_cammpaign=PhoneDog&#038;umt_medium=Blog\">WebOS hits Verizon<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Next<\/strong>: Nokia plays it low-end<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/YC-m-FQuC3rt0Dm_naGTPnfVjb8\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/YC-m-FQuC3rt0Dm_naGTPnfVjb8\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/YC-m-FQuC3rt0Dm_naGTPnfVjb8\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/YC-m-FQuC3rt0Dm_naGTPnfVjb8\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/phonedog_cellphoneblog\/~4\/NdjQ5UH0HnI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CES 2010 Wrap-Up: Noah&#8217;s Top 5 Mobile Stories 4. I&#8217;m ready for WiMax overdrive. Is Sprint? &nbsp; Aaron and I both attended Sprint&#8217;s way-over-the-top press event launching their Overdrive 3G\/4G mobile hotspot. &#8220;Iron Chef&#8221; Mario Batali cooked at the event, and signed copies of his Italian Grill cookbook were handed out. I&#8217;m still not sure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":671,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}