UMTS modem integrated into the Netbook is actually a good idea. The device is called Netbook exactly because, it is designed to surf in the Internet. The reason why most manufacturers are waiting with the integration of a UMTS modem, the price of UMTS modem would rise significantly. But some manufacturers seem to see the inhibition for the higher price for the consumer is not so high, so they are prepared such a product for the market.
The successor to the legendary MSI U100 or Medion Akoya Mini – MSI U123 is the new generation of Netbooks and it has the UMTS modem on board. In addition, U123, according to the NetbookNews.de offers a possibility, to extend RAM up to 2 GB. You will get than a performance that is impossible to get with traditional Netbooks at the moment. At least if you do not wish to risk with the guarantee. Most Netbooks don’t offers any way to exchange RAM without opening Netbook.
Hopefully this version will be not more expensive than 450 euros, because otherwise the sense of the matter will be lost. You don’t buy a Netbook to think that it’s an expensive device and you should be careful with it, but you buy it, to take it into the journey and don’t need to think a lot about the consequences.
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MSI U123 with UMTS support
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009Sidekick 3 by T-Mobile
Thursday, February 1st, 2007T-Mobile offers a new device for mobile internet. The new Sidekick 3 is more slim and smaller now. The device supports GPRS and EDGE (Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution). With EDGE-technology the speed of internet connection must be 4-x faster than ISDN.
Those features as mp3-player, 1.3 mega pixel digital camera, email-push service, Bluetooth, AOL Instant Messenger are present too.
QWERTZ-keyboard is a standard of such sort of devices, but trackball is really a good improvement.
And don’t forget that Sidekick is a mobile phone too and has all the features that you need to make calls 
It’s a pity that I can’t use this device with flat rate for 10€ such as 1&1 Pocket Web. I could order Data Pack but it is much expensive.
1&1 Pocket Web
Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006Since some time 1&1 has a new product in their portfolio. So-called “Pocket Web” was developed by IXI Mobile, it known also as Ogo. It is a mobile device, some kind of PDA with QWERTY-Keyboard. This device is designed for mobile Internet (GPRS) and e-mail-push services. For 10€ monthly you can use Internet on this device without limitations.
It sounds very interesting and I was ready to forgive it such things as display with “only” 4000 colours, limiting of email push-services for only one 1&1 or Web.de email account and slow GPRS-connection, but I found out from article about Pocket Web on www.onlinekosten.de that accumulator power of Pocket Web ranges less than for 4 hours. The next “surprise” was absence of ICQ/AOL/MSN/Yahoo messenger in German version of the device, although this feature is present in Ogo-devices in other countries. I think that some people are afraid that messenger could be a great competitor for sms-service and there are right, because of price for one message with 160 characters.