I am finally in relatively frequent contact with Sony about the Mylo line. I can't believe I missed this little bit in the press release and Emailed her for verification. Check the product page:
Free Wi-Fi access at McDonald's and moreSony’s mylo™ COM-2 device owners receive free Wi-Fi access at over 10,000 Wayport Hotspot locations nationwide; including over 9,000 participating Wi-Fi enabled McDonald's® Restaurants, 70 IHOP restaurants, 600 hotels, and more.
The footnote on that one is "Free through Dec. 31, 2010." That's over 2.5 years away! The way it should work: Get close to a Wayport hotspot and connect to it. The hotspot recognizes that you are a Mylo and you're online. That's it.
The demand for EV-DO, HSDPA, and WiMAX in super-mobile devices will keep going strong as those technologies are not dependent on being in range of a specific hotspot. Those solutions take more money as they require additional hardware and subscriptions to mobile broadband services. Sony's solution, though, is the absolute best possible for a device around the $300 mark. We'll see how other internet devices try to fill the mobile internet gap.p.s. I updated my "ultra-mobile concepts" article to include a new term: Cloud Computing.
2 comments:
hmm, mcdonalds. talk about reinforcing the "for kids/teens" image.
If you remember the first Mylo had a deal setup with T-Mobile for free access for a year. Not a bad deal at all.
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