By: Gary Benton

WiFi has been a hot buzzword for many years now. People are searching for it on the Internet, looking for WiFi hotspots in hotels, cafes, and airports. What it WiFi, and what can it do for you?

WiFi, formerly known as 802.11B, is the most common type of wireless networking around. For those who have a laptop and want to get connected to the Internet, WiFi is the way most users connect. Most laptops have WiFi built in, and many homes with high speed Internet through cable or DSL use WiFi within the home to connect laptops, desktop computers, printers, and scanners.

I started using WiFi ten years ago to get Internet from the university where I worked. It was so much faster than my modem. I haven’t looked back. When traveling in Thailand, Malaysia, Viet Naam, Cambodia, and Australia, my wife and I used WiFi hotspots wherever we could. We’d open up our laptops and catch up with friends and family by email, Facebook, phone calls through our VOIP system, and even live videoconferencing. We also ran our business from our laptops. After traveling for a year, we came back the the US, and faced the same challenge of finding WiFi hotspots. Getting an air card at $60 per month with a two year contract was not an attractive option, and the monthly charge for a cell phone could easily be another $60 a month. Added to our hesitation at signing a two year contract were the limits on Internet usage with the air card. Watch a few YouTube videos, and we’d go over the limit. Plus the air card would only work for one of our laptops, not both. We didn’t know where to turn.

Then we found out about a plan that offers unlimited Internet for multiple computers, as well as unlimited talk minutes and unlimited texting, for less than we would have paid for an air card and a cell phone, and there are no contracts. Wow Mobile provides phones and cell service in a way that enables the cell phone to be a WiFi hotspot. The phone gets 3G Internet through cell phone towers, and makes it available through WiFi to multiple computers. If the hotel, airport, or cafe doesn’t have WiFi, just pull the cell phone out of your pocket and you have fast, unlimited Internet through the cell phone.

At a business conference recently, attendees needed Internet for their laptops, and there wasn’t any to be found. However, out of the 20 businessmen, two were using Wow Mobile. They pulled out their phones, and very quickly everyone was connected by WiFi to the Internet and business continued. Even while talking on their cell phones, people were using the Internet.

Are you tired of paying high prices for your air card, tired of finding WiFi hotspots only part of the time? Find out how to get unlimited Internet to multiple computers wherever you go.

About the Author

Gary Benton has been working in the communications and technology industry for 20 years. He has held positions as a radio engineer, electronics engineering technician, computer technician, webmaster, and wireless communications specialist.

As the cellular telephone industry matures, new opportunities are opening up as smartphones using Google Android technology become available. Through Wow Mobile, positions are open for motivated individuals to earn substantial income while working at home and enjoying flexible schedules.

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Author: Gary Benton

In the late 1990’s Dr. Nefi was anxious to get high speed Internet access at home (this is a true story, but the name has been changed). Dr. Nefi lived across the street from the university where he taught Electrical Engineering. He liked the high speed access at work, but the modem at home was very slow. He and a fellow professor began to develop a radio link using 10 GHz radio transceivers.

Wireless Internet was very expensive at the time, and their system used cheap hardware. Halfway through the project however, 802.11b wireless networking, now known as WiFi, hit the market, and not long afterwards, the university put up a WiFi access point. After waiting a few months for prices to come down, Dr. Nefi and I purchased antennas, cables, and wireless cards, and were soon surfing the web at high speed, thanks to our University’s Internet connection.

In the last decade, WiFi has become very popular, and is now available at Starbucks, McDonalds, and many hotels and airports. People can be seen with laptops at restaurants and coffee shops, surfing the web. While travelers wait at airports, they pull out their laptops, and hope to find a free hotspot so they can check their email or watch an online video.

In recent months, smartphones running the Google Android operating system have become popular, and will soon outsell Apple’s iPhone. These “Google Phones” have built in WiFi, enabling users to surf the web at high speed whenever a WiFi hotspot is near. When a hotspot is not nearby, users can surf the web using high speed Internet from cell phone towers.

Now an innovative new company has taken advantage exciting possibilities based on the combination of these two technologies. Wow Mobile is a division of Liberty International, a leader in VOIP technology, a unique product that provides telephone service through the Internet. Wow Mobile offers low cost cellular phone plans, featuring unlimited talk, text, and Internet for a flat rate. One can purchase smartphones and service through Wow Mobile, or purchase a phone from another source and use one of Wow Mobile’s plans. In either case, users can get unlimited high speed Internet from cell towers to their smartphone using G3 technology. The combination of G3 and WiFi really starts making things happen.

Smartphones can get a high speed G3 Internet connection through the cell phone towers, and make the Internet available through WiFi. In other words, the smartphone becomes a WiFi hotspot nearly anywhere. If your hotel doesn’t offer WiFi, that’s not a problem. If you are at the airport, and the only WiFi hotspots cost money to use, no problem. You can even save at home by replacing your DSL or cable Internet with WiFi from your cell phone. How much could you save by getting rid of that bill?

Best of all, there’s no limit with Wow Mobile’s plans. I know from experience that after watching a few YouTube videos on my laptop, it’s easy to go over the data limits that the major carriers impose. Then the extra charges really start piling on. If you’d like to have a WiFi hotspot that you can carry in your pocket, check out Wow Mobile. Wow Mobile and WiFi are a great combination.

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About the Author

Gary Benton has been working in the communications and technology industry for 20 years. He has held positions as a radio engineer, electronics engineering technician, computer technician, webmaster, and wireless communications specialist.

As the cellular telephone industry matures, new opportunities are opening up as smartphones using Google Android technology become available. Through Wow Mobile, positions are open for motivated individuals to earn substantial income while working at home and enjoying flexible schedules.

By: Gary Benton

Since Google launched the open source Android operating system for cell phones, companies all over the world have been scrambling to produce smartphones that can run this powerful software. In the first 74 days, Google Android phones sold more than Apple iPhones (in their first 74 days). One of the newest, and most sophisticated Android phones is the Samsung I7500.

This cutting edge smartphone has a 3.2″ AMOLED* touch screen, 7.2Mbps HSDPA (high speed Internet), WiFi connectivity and more. Users can talk, text, and surf the web at blazing speeds.  The cell phone’s built in WiFi enables it to be a high speed hotspot. When users get their plan from Wow Mobile, this phone can provide unlimited high speed Internet to multiple computers through WiFi. More information about Wow Mobile.

The built in GPS multiplies the power of Google maps, providing features such as My Location, Street View, local search and detailed route description. Hundreds of other applications are available in the Android Market, and they are simple to install. For example, the application Wikitude, a mobile travel guide, provides details of unknown sights via location-based Wikipedia articles.

The built in camera boasts a 5 megapixel resolution. Users can take a picture and upload it directly to Facebook or email it to a friend, all from the phone. The built in accelerometer makes for fun games, and don’t forget, this is a cell phone, so you can actually call your friend and talk!

Find out how you can get your phone and service for an unbeatable price, with no contracts, fees, or credit checks.

*Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode. This technology produces a very bright, vivid image.

About the Author

Gary Benton has been working in the communications and technology industry for 20 years. He has held positions as a radio engineer, electronics engineering technician, computer technician, webmaster, and wireless communications specialist.

As the cellular telephone industry matures, new opportunities are opening up as smartphones using Google Android technology become available. Through Wow Mobile, positions are open for motivated individuals to earn substantial income while working at home and enjoying flexible schedules.

(ArticlesBase SC #2041052)

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