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Connect Me Obi (W)WAN! - New Ultralight Sony Vaio TSeries Packs Wireless Wide Area NetworkFeature

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After watching the recent Star Wars movie, Revenge of the Sith, I was left wondering what did Ben Kenobi do on Tatooine for 20 odd years while Luke was growing up? I guess the odd game of poker with the sand people was out of the question? A shame Sony T Series WWAN enabled Vaios weren't available then. Lonely Ben could have kept up to date with Yoda and life on Dagobah via instant messenger or email. Just like Obi-Wan's Jedi chum, the wireless Vaio is small, ultralight, yet deceptively powerful.

At firstglance, you could mistake the new Sony VAIO T-Series notebooks asjust your run-of-the-mill additions to the ultraportablenotebook market. The new Sonys can challenge any of the othersuper-thin laptops out there when it comes to weight (at 3.04pounds). But if you weigh it for cutting-edge features, the Sonyclearly stands out from the pack.

The main reason is WWAN. The Sony is the first notebook PC toarrive on the mass market with an integrated high-speed WWAN, orwireless wide area network. It's a form of wireless connectivity thatblows the doors off Wi-Fi connections, if only because it doesnot limit you to set hotspots. Instead, WWAN is availablewherever cellular service is available. Nowadays, that meanspractically everywhere.

In the United States, the VAIO T-Series specifically run on the Cingular Wireless EDGE network. EDGEcovers 13,000 municipalities and 40,000 miles of highway.Wherever you may be, you could be able to reach speeds of 70 to135 kbps with the service.

U.S. users will receive at least one month's free service withCingular to test out WWAN. Afterward, however, they will berequired to subscribe to a Cingular Data Connect plan for atleast a year if they wish to continue.

If you opt out of WWAN, or just want to connect to the Web theold-fashioned way, the VAIO's SmartWi function will help youswitch between connectivity modes. As simply as you would turn upthe volume on your notebook, you can hop onto WLAN to access aWi-Fi hotspot or tap into Bluetooth for your peripherals.

This featherweight notebook also packs the other heavyweightcapabilities that you would expect from a Sony geared forbusiness. The 10.6-inch wide LCD display features Sony XBRITEtechnology. The sound system offers Dolby surround sound forheadphones. And for drives, it comes standard with a double-layerDVD burner.

Add Sony multimediasoftware and an estimated nine hours of battery time, and youhave a laptop that can keep you busy on long businessflights.

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