BASED COMMUNICATIONS
(Copyright (c) 2004. Centaur Communications Limited. Reproduced withpermission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction ordistribution is prohibited without permission.)
1985 was a year that had a dramatic effect on the way we now live our lives. It was the year mobile phones first appeared the UK with the launch of Racal Vodafone and Cellnet and Microsoft also launched the first version of its Windows operating system that November.
While mobile phones were for some years considered executive toys and Windows did not really take off until the launch of version 3 in 1990, both now dominate our working lives.
Today, mobile phones and computer software are rapidly converging to make the concept of computing where you want it, when you want it, a reality. This has dramatic implications for our industry as it will enable advisers to take their computers everywhere and help them become a core part of the advice process.
For the past few months I have been testing a service that aims to not only combine the two technologies but make them affordable to small business. Under what, as far as I am aware, is a unique initiative, Fujitsu Siemens has joined up with Vodafone to apply the same model to the sale of mobile computers that has been so successful in promoting the use of mobile phones.
We are all familiar with mobile phone deals by which the mobile phone company subsidises the cost of the hardware in the expectation of our future call traffic. Connect2Air takes the same approach to the delivery of laptops enabled with mobile data cards.
You pay an initial cost to the reseller, typically pound 150, and sign up to a two-year contract costing pound 90 to pound 110 a month. This includes the cost of the PC and data card, a choice of different packages for your data depending on how much you expect to use, accidental damage and theft insurance, the latest version of Microsoft office, next day onsite support and a stolen laptop tracker service.
All laptops are also enabled with Intel Centrino chips, enabling them to use wi-fi networks.
What this adds up to is a package that means you can maintain computer-based communications wherever you are if you are within a wi-fi hotspot.
Wi-fi, also known as the 802 standard, will use either a wi-fi card or increasingly a wi-fi capability built into your laptop to allow you to connect within short distance, usually about 10 metres, of a base station. Normally, public hotspot connections are paid for by the hour at around pound 5 an hour and they are increasingly available at airports, main railway stations, Starbucks and Cafe Nero. There are around 3,000 public hotspots in the UK.
Another method of wireless connection is through GPRS cards, which can provide access to mobile internet services using the 2.5G mobile phone network. This can sometimes be a slow connection, if anything slightly slower than a dial-up modem. The leading-edge solution for mobile computing is the new 3G data networks. Coverage for 3G is still limited to the major cities, so it is not necessarily ideal for use all over the country.
To search for a local hotspot by postcode, the data card can be used to connect to www.totalhot-spots.com, after which users can make their way to the nearest hotspot.
My testing was carried out on a top-of-the-range Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook T3010. This machine can be used as a normal keyboard-based PC but by swivelling the screen 180 degrees, it can be folded flat and used as a windows tablet PC.
Tablet is a technology that could have a positive effect on our industry in the future. The level of handwriting recognition on the latest version of the tablet operating system is amazing. It really can read the most untidy scrawls. As someone with reasonable typing speeds I have to confess that I kept reverting to the keyboard but for those who do not type, with a little initial discipline tablet offers a potential solution for advisers that want to get away from using pen and paper.
I also had the benefit of a Vodafone 3G card which automatically changes to GPRS whenever the 3G network is not available without losing the connection.
Two weeks ago I was on the road almost all week, speaking at the Money Marketing Live/AdviserTech event in Manchester on the Tuesday, followed by a day in Altrincham with Bankhall before travelling to the Forest of Arden to speak at the SIFA/sIFAc conference on the Thursday, returning to London Friday morning. The Connect2Air PC provided internet access throughout.
To address the problem of slow 2.5G connections the Connect2Air package includes specialist acceleration technology from Tracline called AcceleNet (see www.tracline.co.uk). This took the speed from the level of world wide wait to a level that I found more than acceptable while travelling.
So is this the ultimate PC connectivity package and is it good value for money? It is certainly further forward than anything else I have used. The ideal solution would include a bundled allowance for hotspot use as well as the data card.
The deal does now offer all users a 3G card in place of the basic GPRS for a six-month extension on the contract and I am told that in the next two months a dedicated 3G bundle will be announced. Vodafone does not, at the moment, have the widest 3G network - that can be claimed by Orange, which has some highly competitive pricing for standalone data cards. The length of the agreement does not seem excessive even if you go for the six-month extension to take in 3G.
Allowing for the Microsoft Office licence, insurance and a data allowance, the costs do not seem excessive given that you are getting a high-quality laptop.
Personally I would probably go for the biggest possible data allowance as once you get used to the degree of freedom this set up can give, you are likely to want to take advantage of it all the time.
Copyright: Centaur Communications Ltd. and licensors
(Copyright (c) 2004. Centaur Communications Limited. Reproduced withpermission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction ordistribution is prohibited without permission.)
1985 was a year that had a dramatic effect on the way we now live our lives. It was the year mobile phones first appeared the UK with the launch of Racal Vodafone and Cellnet and Microsoft also launched the first version of its Windows operating system that November.
While mobile phones were for some years considered executive toys and Windows did not really take off until the launch of version 3 in 1990, both now dominate our working lives.
Today, mobile phones and computer software are rapidly converging to make the concept of computing where you want it, when you want it, a reality. This has dramatic implications for our industry as it will enable advisers to take their computers everywhere and help them become a core part of the advice process.
For the past few months I have been testing a service that aims to not only combine the two technologies but make them affordable to small business. Under what, as far as I am aware, is a unique initiative, Fujitsu Siemens has joined up with Vodafone to apply the same model to the sale of mobile computers that has been so successful in promoting the use of mobile phones.
We are all familiar with mobile phone deals by which the mobile phone company subsidises the cost of the hardware in the expectation of our future call traffic. Connect2Air takes the same approach to the delivery of laptops enabled with mobile data cards.
You pay an initial cost to the reseller, typically pound 150, and sign up to a two-year contract costing pound 90 to pound 110 a month. This includes the cost of the PC and data card, a choice of different packages for your data depending on how much you expect to use, accidental damage and theft insurance, the latest version of Microsoft office, next day onsite support and a stolen laptop tracker service.
All laptops are also enabled with Intel Centrino chips, enabling them to use wi-fi networks.
What this adds up to is a package that means you can maintain computer-based communications wherever you are if you are within a wi-fi hotspot.
Wi-fi, also known as the 802 standard, will use either a wi-fi card or increasingly a wi-fi capability built into your laptop to allow you to connect within short distance, usually about 10 metres, of a base station. Normally, public hotspot connections are paid for by the hour at around pound 5 an hour and they are increasingly available at airports, main railway stations, Starbucks and Cafe Nero. There are around 3,000 public hotspots in the UK.
Another method of wireless connection is through GPRS cards, which can provide access to mobile internet services using the 2.5G mobile phone network. This can sometimes be a slow connection, if anything slightly slower than a dial-up modem. The leading-edge solution for mobile computing is the new 3G data networks. Coverage for 3G is still limited to the major cities, so it is not necessarily ideal for use all over the country.
To search for a local hotspot by postcode, the data card can be used to connect to www.totalhot-spots.com, after which users can make their way to the nearest hotspot.
My testing was carried out on a top-of-the-range Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook T3010. This machine can be used as a normal keyboard-based PC but by swivelling the screen 180 degrees, it can be folded flat and used as a windows tablet PC.
Tablet is a technology that could have a positive effect on our industry in the future. The level of handwriting recognition on the latest version of the tablet operating system is amazing. It really can read the most untidy scrawls. As someone with reasonable typing speeds I have to confess that I kept reverting to the keyboard but for those who do not type, with a little initial discipline tablet offers a potential solution for advisers that want to get away from using pen and paper.
I also had the benefit of a Vodafone 3G card which automatically changes to GPRS whenever the 3G network is not available without losing the connection.
Two weeks ago I was on the road almost all week, speaking at the Money Marketing Live/AdviserTech event in Manchester on the Tuesday, followed by a day in Altrincham with Bankhall before travelling to the Forest of Arden to speak at the SIFA/sIFAc conference on the Thursday, returning to London Friday morning. The Connect2Air PC provided internet access throughout.
To address the problem of slow 2.5G connections the Connect2Air package includes specialist acceleration technology from Tracline called AcceleNet (see www.tracline.co.uk). This took the speed from the level of world wide wait to a level that I found more than acceptable while travelling.
So is this the ultimate PC connectivity package and is it good value for money? It is certainly further forward than anything else I have used. The ideal solution would include a bundled allowance for hotspot use as well as the data card.
The deal does now offer all users a 3G card in place of the basic GPRS for a six-month extension on the contract and I am told that in the next two months a dedicated 3G bundle will be announced. Vodafone does not, at the moment, have the widest 3G network - that can be claimed by Orange, which has some highly competitive pricing for standalone data cards. The length of the agreement does not seem excessive even if you go for the six-month extension to take in 3G.
Allowing for the Microsoft Office licence, insurance and a data allowance, the costs do not seem excessive given that you are getting a high-quality laptop.
Personally I would probably go for the biggest possible data allowance as once you get used to the degree of freedom this set up can give, you are likely to want to take advantage of it all the time.
Copyright: Centaur Communications Ltd. and licensors
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COMUNICACIONES BASADAS (Derechos de autor (c) 2004. Comunicaciones de Centauro Limitadas. Reproducido withpermission del titular de un derecho de autor. La remota reproducción ordistribution es prohibida sin el permiso.) 1985 era un año que tenía un efecto dramático en el camino ahora vivimos nuestras vidas. Esto era los teléfonos móviles de año primero apareció el Reino Unido con el lanzamiento de Racal Vodafone y Cellnet y Microsoft también lanzó la primera versión de su sistema operativo Windows ese noviembre.
Mientras los teléfonos móviles eran durante algunos años juguetes considerados ejecutivos y Ventanas realmente no salieron hasta el lanzamiento de la versión 3 en 1990, ambos ahora dominan nuestras vidas trabajadores.
Hoy, los teléfonos móviles y el software rápidamente convergen para hacer el concepto de informática donde usted lo quiere, cuando usted quiere ello, una realidad. Esto tiene implicaciones dramáticas para nuestra industria como esto permitirá a consejeros tomar sus ordenadores por todas partes y les ayudará a hacerse una parte principal del proceso de consejo.
Durante los pocos meses pasados he estado probando un servicio que apunta para no sólo combinar las dos tecnologías, pero hacerlos económicos al pequeño negocio. Bajo que, por lo que soy consciente, es una iniciativa única, Fujitsu Siemens se ha unido levantan Vodafone para aplicar el mismo modelo a la venta de los ordenadores móviles que ha sido tan acertada en la promoción del empleo de teléfonos móviles.
Somos todo familiares con tratos(repartos) de teléfono móvil segun los cuales la empresa de teléfono móvil subvenciona el coste del hardware en la expectativa de nuestro futuro tráfico de llamada. Connect2Air toma el mismo acercamiento a la entrega de ordenadores portátiles permitidos con tarjetas de datos móviles.
Usted paga un coste inicial al revendedor, típicamente palpita 150, y se matricula a un contrato de dos años que cuesta la libra 90 para palpitar 110 por mes. Esto incluye el coste del ordenador personal y la tarjeta de datos, una opción de paquetes diferentes para sus datos dependiendo(según) cuanto usted espera usar, el daño accidental y el seguro de robo, la última versión de oficina de Microsoft, al día siguiente el apoyo local y un servicio de perseguidor de ordenador portátil robado.
Todos los ordenadores portátiles también son permitidos con Intel Centrino patatas chips, permitiéndolos usar redes de wi-fi.
Hasta qué esto añade es un paquete que quiere decir que usted puede mantener comunicaciones asistidas por ordenador en cualquier parte donde usted sea si usted es dentro de un punto conflictivo wi-fi.
Wi-fi, también sabido(conocido) como el 802 estándar, usará tarjeta wi-fi o cada vez más una capacidad wi-fi incorporó en su ordenador portátil para permitirle para unir(conectar) dentro de la distancia corta, por lo general aproximadamente 10 metros, de una estación baja. Normalmente, conexiones de punto conflictivo públicas son pagadas a la hora alrededor de la libra 5 por hora y ellos están cada vez más disponibles en aeropuertos, estaciones principales de ferrocarril, Starbucks y la Cafetería Nero Wolfe. Hay alrededor de 3,000 puntos conflictivos públicos en el Reino Unido.
Otro método de conexión inalámbrica es por tarjetas GPRS, que pueden proporcionar el acceso a servicios móviles de Internet que usan el 2.5G la red de teléfono móvil. Esto a veces puede ser una conexión lenta, si algo ligeramente más despacio que un módem de disco encima de. La solución avanzada para la informática de móvil es la nueva 3G redes de datos. La cobertura para 3G todavía es limitada con las ciudades principales, entonces es no necesariamente el ideal para el empleo en todo el país.
Para buscar un punto conflictivo local por el código postal, la tarjeta de datos puede ser usada unirse a www.totalhot-spots.com, después de lo cual los usuarios pueden hacer su camino al punto conflictivo más cercano.
Mis pruebas fueron realizadas sobre Fujitsu de primerísima calidad Siemens Lifebook T3010. Esta máquina puede ser usada como un ordenador personal normal a base de teclado, pero por girando la pantalla 180 grados, puede ser doblado el apartamento y usado como un ordenador personal de pastilla de ventanas.
La pastilla es una tecnología que podría tener un efecto positivo sobre nuestra industria en el futuro. El nivel de escribir a mano el reconocimiento sobre la última versión de la pastilla el sistema de operaciones es asombroso. Esto realmente puede leer los garabatos más desordenados. Como alguien con la mecanografía razonable se apresura tengo que confesar que seguí volviendo al teclado, pero para los que no escriben a máquina, con una pequeña pastilla de disciplina inicial ofrece una solución potencial para los consejeros que quieren alejarse de la pluma de utilización y el papel.
Yo también tenía la ventaja de un Vodafone 3G la tarjeta que automáticamente se cambia a GPRS siempre que el 3G la red no sea disponible sin perder la conexión. Hace dos semanas yo estaba sobre el camino casi toda la semana, que habla en el Control de comercialización de Dinero Live/AdviserTech el acontecimiento en Manchester el martes, seguido a un día en Altrincham con Bankhall antes de viajes al Bosque de Arden para hablar en la conferencia SIFA/SIFAC el jueves,
Devolver a viernes por la mañana de Londres. El ordenador personal Connect2Air proporcionó el acceso de Internet en todas partes. Para dirigir el problema de lento 2.5G conexiones el paquete de Connect2Air incluye la tecnología de aceleración de especialista de Tracline llamado AcceleNet (visto www.tracline.co.uk). Esto tomó la velocidad del nivel de mundial esperan a un nivel el que encontré más que aceptable viajando. ¿Entonces esto es la conectividad de ordenador personal última embalan y es ello la relación calidad-precio buena? Esto es seguramente remoto adelante que algo más que he usado. La solución ideal incluiría una concesión atada para el empleo de punto conflictivo así como la tarjeta de datos.
El trato(reparto) realmente ahora ofrece un 3G la tarjeta a todos los usuarios en el lugar de GPRS básico para una extensión de seis meses sobre el contrato y me dicen que en los dos próximos meses un dedicado 3G el bulto será anunciado. Vodafone, en este momento, no tiene lo más amplio 3G la red - que puede ser reclamado por la Naranja, que tiene alguna acción de poner el precio sumamente competitiva para tarjetas de datos independientes. La longitud del acuerdo no parece excesiva incluso si usted va para la extensión de seis meses a recoger 3G. Teniendo la licencia de Oficina de Microsoft en cuenta, el seguro y una concesión de datos, los gastos no parecen excesivos dados que usted consigue un ordenador portátil de alta calidad. Personalmente yo probablemente iría para la concesión de datos posible más grande como una vez que usted se acostumbra al grado de libertad este juego encima de puede dar, usted probablemente va a querer aprovecharlo todo el tiempo. Derechos de autor: Comunicaciones de Centauro Ltd. y licenciadores
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