QUOTE (The Undude @ Jun 6 2006, 10:01 PM)
Just to comment on the "Wi-Fi is on the way out" thought: I'm not sure I would agree with that. Wi-Fi is free in many places, and EDVO is not - and that's important to remember. Also, I believe Wi-Fi chips are continuing to gain better efficiency characteristics and thus will require less and less power. Moores Law we all know; but Metcalfe's Law posits that the value of a network grows as the square of the number of users. Perhaps that ratio is a bit to generaous, but I think (despite all its issues) Wi-Fi is becoming a standard -- and free telephony is too appealing to be passed up.
Not to make the Q thread a debate on WiFi, but one reason the Q doesn't need WiFi is you are locked into buying EVDO by Verizon. Verizon needed to keep the Q cost down so they had Motorola leave it out. They also want to keep you captured to their services. My own experience since running on two EVDO carriers (Sprint and Verizon) is I never use WiFi for those devices.
Free WiFi is nice where you can get it, but someone is always paying for the internet bandwidth, so is it ever really free?