6th June 2011, 6:52 PM
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/...3g-299.ars
That's what it'll be called. There will be one with Wifi and one with 3G. The 3G one will, in America, be locked to AT&T. The press audience was NOT polite about it (nor should they be) openly booing the announcement. Good for them. Devices really should be service agnostic. I'd hate to get routers that were locked to Comcast or Cox. In this case, it's going to cost $299. Unless that's STILL being subsidized by a contract (doubtful, the wifi-only one isn't something you get from a cell phone provider), then we're paying full price and still don't have full freedom.
Expect this to be unlocked about as fast as the PSP was.
That's what it'll be called. There will be one with Wifi and one with 3G. The 3G one will, in America, be locked to AT&T. The press audience was NOT polite about it (nor should they be) openly booing the announcement. Good for them. Devices really should be service agnostic. I'd hate to get routers that were locked to Comcast or Cox. In this case, it's going to cost $299. Unless that's STILL being subsidized by a contract (doubtful, the wifi-only one isn't something you get from a cell phone provider), then we're paying full price and still don't have full freedom.
Expect this to be unlocked about as fast as the PSP was.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)