Thu 21 Aug 2008
WIFI in my car … did you say WIFI? You really meant HI-FI … as in stereo … right?
Posted by Shadi under Computing , Gaming , Internet , Life , Technology[5] Comments
It has finally arrived…we will now be able to subscribe to wireless internet for our car! Now you don’t have to wait to get home to perform your WoW raids…you can raid all the way home! Wait a minute isn’t that too dangerous? Well who cares about the road and highway safety guidelines – this is WIFI on the fly!
The other day I heard on the radio that Chrysler will be coming out with WIFI internet for cars. So I did all this research on the net checking out ENDGADGET, TWICE, CRUNCH GEAR and more geek driven sites and to my pleasure it’s true.
Chrysler motors announced earlier this year that it would be providing 2009 models of certain vehicles with internet capabilities. Well earlier this month they announced that they will begin selling this feature as early as August 25 of this year.
This will be an add on feature as part of their UCONNECT service and it will be called UCONNECT WEB. UCCONECT is currently Chrysler’s bluetooth kit that comes with their cars. This will be an in car EV-DO system with an activation fee of $35 and a monthly subscription of $29. The WIFI router that will be retrofitted into their vehicles cost approximately $499. The service is said to provide download speeds between 400Kbps and 800Kbps with uploads hovering around 400Kbps. The company AUTONET mobile claims that one will never lose an internet connection. Personally I find that to be a really hard to believe and a very bold claim but we’ll just have to wait and see.
I can’t wait to see all the bratty little kids watching youtube videos of the latest uncreative music video that was just released. Oh but wait, I can also connect my webcam on my laptop and you can all watch me live as I curse at all my fellow commuters for driving too slow … due to being distracted from using some gadget that should not be used while driving … isn’t life full of irony!?
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August 21st, 2008 at 19:03
i cant wait to get this on my car!
August 22nd, 2008 at 07:03
Wow, I’m not actually sure if this is good news! I mean driving while talking on a cellphone (without a bluetooth headset) was just made illegal, isn’t this like 10x worse? Then again, some people have TV’s in their cars but I think that’s just in the back for passengers. Am I wrong?
August 22nd, 2008 at 09:06
in this case you are right about the dangers but wrong about it just being available to people in the back it is wifi so if you have a device that can connect to wireless internet then it is not limited to the back
August 22nd, 2008 at 18:29
crazy baby! got get me some wifi while i drive
November 9th, 2008 at 17:01
I think this is great. I have a WIFI phone and get free talk time over WIFI. yes I’d have to pay for the car’s connection, BUT call all I want and use no minutes is cool on top of being able to laptop on roadtrips. thank you t-mobile!!