Wishful thinking.(Opinion)

RCR Wireless News, August, 2006

Byline: Dan Meyer Few wireless applications tickle my oh-so-fickle fancy. As a matter of fact, up until last week only a pair of apps were useful enough for me to download to my handset: Google Maps and Opera Mini Browser, both of which are off-deck apps and ones I use on regularly. Those two were joined last week by what has to be the coolest application ever: Slingbox Mobile.

Having heard about this great application first from Ovum analyst Roger Entner, the stars finally aligned and I was able to procure the hardware necessary to demo this place-shifting technology. Within a matter of minutes I was watching my home cable TV from the comfy confines of my 4-foot by 8-foot cell (I mean cubicle) using Verizon Wireless' CDMA2000 1x EV-DO network...

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