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Crave Essentials: Travel tech we love

Crave Behold the Vodafone Mobile Connect USB Modem. In order to give you all the latest and greatest tech news, Crave has to travel far and wide. Thirty years ago, travelling around the world and getting pictures and text back to the mother ship would...

Tags: love, crave, listen, travel

22 February 2007, 11:27

Vodafone USB modem 7.2: Broadband in the park

Crave You can either use your mobile as a modem and connect it directly to your laptop via a USB cable (extra charges may apply), or if you're prepared to pay a little extra for a USB modem, you simply plug it in and away you go.

Tags: vodafone, usb, modem, laptop

3 December 2007, 8:00

Toshiba G450: Small but perfectly odd

Crave Newest among these enigmatic devices is the G450: a mobile-cum-iPod-cum-HSDPA modem. It'll even work as a high-speed broadband modem if you connect it to your laptop -- for speeds of up to 2.6Mbps. Toshiba isn't well known for its mobile phones...

Tags: toshiba, modem, cum, broadband

22 February 2008, 9:42

Tech for travelling: Because you can only carry so much

Crave Vodafone USB modem 7.2We couldn't live without our laptops, but neither could we survive without the Internet, which is why we like to carry a USB data dongle with us at all times. Recently we've been testing out the Vodafone USB modem 7.2, which...

22 February 2008, 15:05

USB dongle: Red-hot 3G deal of the day

Crave All you have to do is connect a 3G USB modem (they look disturbingly like tampon applicators, but there you go) to your laptop, and hey presto you're online. One of the cheapest deals at the moment is from 3, which offers 3GB a month with a free...

Tags: usb, deal, field, laptop

17 April 2008, 15:15

Blackberry 8707v: Speedy Gonzalez's BlackBerry of choice

Crave According to the  Blackberry fanatics at airtime manager, Vodafone and RIM are going to launch the Blackberry 8707v in the UK shortly and it's going to have a built-in 3G modem. Rumours about a new BlackBerry handset are spreading like wildfire...

Tags: rim, blackberry, keypad, qwerty

27 March 2006, 12:00

Devolo dLAN 200 AVdesk: Stream media like electricity

Crave The Starter Kit comes with two boxes that resemble a router or modem. Want to set up a home network? Can't deal with configuring Wi-Fi? Your boyfriend won't let you string up network cables around the home?

Tags: fi, streaming, pcs, wi fi

20 October 2006, 11:11

ECS G10IL: Another wannabEee hops on the bandwagon

Crave The ECS G10IL serves up three USB 2.0 ports -- count 'em, Jobsy -- Ethernet and modem jacks, WLAN and Bluetooth, and a 4-in-1 card reader. In the glorious race to the bottom, another contender has emerged to take on the Asus hit that is the tiny...

Tags: linux, card reader, sony vaio, eee pc

20 March 2008, 16:01

A bit of a lemon: Orange SPV C550

Crave Disappointingly, Internet access is barely above a crawl -- anyone familiar with a 14.4kbps modem and bulletin boards will be right at home here. This really defies rational understanding. Windows Mobile brings Microsoft's often frustrating OS to...

Tags: orange, windows mobile, extract, car

9 November 2005, 10:55

Real Life: The BT Home Hub baby monitor

Crave Broadband modem and wireless router in one, it was quick and easy to set up, which had been a concern -- wireless isn't usually the easiest thing to get going. BT's politically correct TV ads (boyfriend circumvents step-family pitfalls with the...

Tags: bt, broadband, package, wireless

15 August 2006, 10:09

Asus Eee PC: £199 Linux laptop

Crave Other interesting specs include 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, a 4GB, 8GB or 16GB solid-state hard drive, 56K modem, 10/100MB Ethernet, a 0.3-megapixel video camera and four USB ports -- that's more than many full-size laptops.

Tags: laptop, inch, windows xp, asus

17 July 2007, 11:44

3's 3G datacard: Laptop it up

Crave This allows you to browse the Web on your laptop up to four times faster than with a GPRS data card, and seven times faster than a standard 56k modem, almost anywhere in the UK. Have you ever thought that browsing the Web on a mobile phone is about...

Tags: emails, browse, laptop, datacard

16 March 2006, 11:07

PC World offers 'free' laptop with Orange broadband

Crave Both services come with a modem and a 30-day money-back guarantee. PC World raised a few eyebrows this afternoon as it announced it would give a free laptop to anyone who signs up to two years of Orange broadband in its stores.

Tags: broadband, package, windows xp, laptop

18 July 2007, 13:08

Vodafone E172 USB dongle: Ickle Internet maker

Crave We recently Craved Vodafone's USB modem 7.2, which offers the same performance, but is slightly bigger and requires a cable. Need Internet on the go? You're either going to have to buy a laptop with a built-in 3G data card, hook your laptop up to...

Tags: mobile phone, laptop, usb, attach

18 January 2008, 7:50

Crave Talk: Sky high with Net fever

Crave BSkyB, one of the most aggressive media companies in the country, had just reminded its viewers that they could bypass it entirely and cop an eyeful of yellow-skinned comedy straight from the modem. By Sunday evening, the weekend is wearing off.

Tags: sky, consumer, viewing, man

19 July 2006, 12:09