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...years. And Net telephony provider Skype has 51 million people using its system. So why would Google, with an $80 billion empire built entirely on search, bother playing catch-up on a product that seems unlikely to earn it much money? The same reason a hotel offers free wi-fi, says Scott Cleland, CEO of Precursor, an investment research firm. "They're not doing it to make money on wi-fi. It's to get people to come to the hotel." Google has launched a raft of products this past year, and its late entry into the software-features...
...goes beyond that. When you register on the Web, you can identify your cable or satellite TV carrier and the remote's internal Wi-Fi will go download a schedule of upcoming shows. Also, the Wi-Fi can be used to stream music from a computer on your home network. The remote's dock can be connected to a stereo input of your audio receiver or boom box. If you install the included Media Manager software on a PC that has a lot of MP3s, you can dock the remote, pull up songs and play them. When used in conjunction...
...with this thing. (There's also a pay-per-kilobyte plan). Once you've paid for a service that's anywhere you go (within the boundaries of the 40+ markets), why would you swing by a Starbucks to pay for an additional service like T-Mobile's location-specific Wi-Fi? That isn't to say the phone couldn't be used to access your home Wi-Fi network if you have one, but if you don't have one, you might not need it. EVDO is pretty darn fast...
...While many point to handsets like this as proof that Wi-Fi and wide-area broadband networks will co-exist, I think that the i730 is a good example of why only one is necessary. The original promise was that these devices would simply upload and download data using the most efficient means, and that all of the streaming would happen below the surface. Instead, the burden is on the user-do you want Wi-Fi or EVDO at this very moment?-and it remains to be seen whether the user is the best person to make this judgment. Wide...