{"id":640477,"date":"2009-12-31T01:51:49","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T06:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sidecutreports.com\/?p=479"},"modified":"2009-12-31T01:51:49","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T06:51:49","slug":"sprint%e2%80%99s-new-hybrid-pocketspot%e2%80%a6-in-the-wild-at-ces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/640477","title":{"rendered":"Sprint\u2019s New Hybrid Pocketspot\u2026 In the Wild at CES?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2009\/12\/30\/sprint-overdrive-dual-mode-wimax-ev-do-mobile-hotspot-leaks-in\/\">this post<\/a> at the usually reliable Engadget blog, we are pretty well convinced that a hybrid pocketspot might be the big news Sprint is teeing up next week at CES. Unlike some other folks, who seem convinced a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationweek.com\/blog\/main\/archives\/2009\/12\/sprint_lg_micro.html;jsessionid=TCPKQ1R25DYI5QE1GHPSKHWATMY32JVN\">WiMAX phone<\/a> is in the offing, we&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unstrung.com\/blog.asp?blog_sectionid=776&#038;doc_id=185747\">much more bullish<\/a> on the WiMAX\/EVDO pocketspot (aka mobile router) product being a reality, in no small part because it&#8217;s an easier thing to build.<\/p>\n<p>And after all.. the Sprint invite sent out to press and analysts in early December talked about the event being the &#8220;hottest spot in Vegas&#8221; or some such construction. Why go through such prosaic leaps if you were just announcing a phone? Sounds like a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unstrung.com\/blog.asp?blog_sectionid=776&#038;doc_id=185747\">new pocketspot<\/a> to us, an idea we thought about earlier this month. (Yes, we have been long early on both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unstrung.com\/blog.asp?blog_sectionid=776&#038;doc_id=185439\">pocketspots<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unstrung.com\/blog.asp?blog_sectionid=776&#038;doc_id=185747\">hybrid plans<\/a>. Looks like that call was a good one.)<\/p>\n<p>Whatever happens at the Sprint event next week, we&#8217;ll be there, and let you know when it happens&#8230; but we aren&#8217;t banking on using a WiMAX phone to make the call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading this post at the usually reliable Engadget blog, we are pretty well convinced that a hybrid pocketspot might be the big news Sprint is teeing up next week at CES. Unlike some other folks, who seem convinced a WiMAX phone is in the offing, we&#8217;re much more bullish on the WiMAX\/EVDO pocketspot (aka mobile [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2719,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821,12073],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-640477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-wireless"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2GCh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2719"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}