Charlie Sorell of Wired.com just came up with an interesting concept in one of its latest posts: making the iPod Touch a true communication device just like the iPhone is.
Sorrell just got the MiFi — a mobile, battery-powered WiFi hotspot that can share a high-speed cell connection with several devices via WiFi – and coupled it with an iPod Touch.
And when you actually think about it in terms of costs, it just clearly appears that “the combo of iPod Touch and MiFi might just be better than the iPhone”!
According to Sorell, “The real point is that if you have a mobile Wi-Fi hotspot in your pocket, it is going to be cheaper than an iPhone contract pretty much anywhere, and can not only enable your iPod Touch to have an always on connection, but let you make Skype calls and stream music without having to worry about the usual iPhone size limits, as you’re on Wi-Fi. You can also share the connection with five machines in total, including a netbook, for true on the go video calls and (gasp) Spotify.”
And all of that without to have to use a swiss knife! Just amazing…
This somehow reminds me quite a similar experiment I conducted 6 month ago when I turned my Nokia cellphone into a wifi hotspot (using JoikuSpot and my unlimited 3G monthly plan to surf the Web). In terms of download and upload speed, I managed to peek at a very decent average of 850 kbps in downloads (I eventually managed to reach 1259 kbps!) and 85 kbps in uploads (peeked at 98 kbps during my speed tests on speedtest.net).
What would be interesting now would be to find a way to have my Nokia cellphone use its own generated wifi hotspot to surf the Internet, use Skype and its built in Internet radio or Deezer/Jiwa while on the go.
It seems that I just gave myself a new challenge to raise!
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To see the full article on Wired.com: click here
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