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Dell Latitude E4200 with built-in mobile broadband
0I bought a Dell Latitude E4200 for my new boss, as this laptop is light, handy and comes in the beautiful color of deep burgundy red! Not only Apple can make machines with a great design. No, no, seriously, the 12,1 inch ultraportable benefits from a fast solid-state hard drive (SSD) and it’s weight is about 1,19 KG. The build quality is impressive, with a magnesium-alloy chassis and no obvious areas of weakness.
But before you continue, grab yourself a coffee cup …
NSB with WIFI and media services
0The national railway in Norway, NSB, is testing out WIFI on some of their trains this summer, and different kinds of media services. If you are planning a trip between Skien – Lillehammer and Oslo – Bergen this summer, consider bringing with your laptop.
All services are for free during the test period, and you will have to pay for some of the services from this autumn on. But the really good thing is, that WIFI most likely will continue to be free! The reason why it is free this summer, is that NSB want to stress test the systems as much as possible. The big question is therefore when NSB will add wifi to all their local trains in the Oslo region. Is it even possible?
I have recently written a small test of the external mobile broadband modem ZTE Cocktail and will write about the wonderful Dell Latitude 4200 with inbuilt mobile broadband.
ZTE Cocktail
12 years ago
Today I bought an HSDPA modem (ZTE MF628) designed by Moods of Norway. Three designs are available, and I chose ZTE Cocktail with blue tractors and pink cocktails (I guess that is how they party on Voss?). Who said that modems all should have the same horrible design? The three design got launched during the Oslo Fashion Week back in February this year.
The modem is made by ZTE Corporation, an unknown company for us living in Norway, but it is China’s largest listed telecommunications manufacturer and wireless solutions provider. It can do downloads up to 7,2 Mbps.
The installation of the modem’s straight forward as long as you install it for Windows XP/Vista. I didn’t manage to install it for Windows 7. It also comes with drivers for MacOS X, and it also reported to work with Linux (Ubuntu). The coolness dropped a little bit, when I saw the horrible user interface that came with the application that establishes the Internet connection. Fact is, I have never seen a good design for this simple kind of application. Mobile Connect looked ok, launch2net did not! I haven’t used the modem a lot, but it seems to be of a good quality. The modem also come with the possibility to read/write to Mini-SD card. Nice for people having digital compact camera with that kind of card reader.
Hopefully a future version of the modem’s driver, let you do the dial up directly from Windows 7, without these funny/horrible looking 3rd party applications.