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December 21st, 2009, 16:20
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Sure, you could go the easy route and pick up a MiFi (http://www.engadget.com/tag/MiFi/), but if you're serious about your on-the-road wireless broadband, you should probably buy an entire car. Ford's next generation of Sync systems will have built-in WiFi and the capability of sharing a 3G connection with the car's driver-defined white list of approved devices. It's a bring-your-own-3G-card affair (you jack into the Sync's USB plug), and sounds like a nice way for Ford to get you to pay for a 3G connection that could theoretically fuel some of those upcoming Sync apps (http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/18/ford-to-give-sync-some-app-store-flavor-opening-api-to-devs-in/). The second generation of Sync is due to launch next year, and we should be seeing plenty of it at CES in January: Ford's CEO has the opening keynote.Next-gen Ford Sync adding WiFi hotspot capabilities, you provide the 3G modem (http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/) originally appeared on Engadget (http://www.engadget.com) on Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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Sure, you could go the easy route and pick up a MiFi (http://www.engadget.com/tag/MiFi/), but if you're serious about your on-the-road wireless broadband, you should probably buy an entire car. Ford's next generation of Sync systems will have built-in WiFi and the capability of sharing a 3G connection with the car's driver-defined white list of approved devices. It's a bring-your-own-3G-card affair (you jack into the Sync's USB plug), and sounds like a nice way for Ford to get you to pay for a 3G connection that could theoretically fuel some of those upcoming Sync apps (http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/18/ford-to-give-sync-some-app-store-flavor-opening-api-to-devs-in/). The second generation of Sync is due to launch next year, and we should be seeing plenty of it at CES in January: Ford's CEO has the opening keynote.Next-gen Ford Sync adding WiFi hotspot capabilities, you provide the 3G modem (http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/21/next-gen-ford-sync-adding-wifi-hotspot-capabilities-you-provide/) originally appeared on Engadget (http://www.engadget.com) on Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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