Sprint announces EV-DO router and USB dongle

by Paul Miller, posted Apr 5th 2006 at 6:40PM

Instead sitting back and frowning on bandwidth hogging EV-DO to WiFi routers, Sprint has decided to jump into the game themselves with a new device made by Linksys. Accompanying the new router -- which, like current solutions, merely hosts existing PCMCIA EV-DO cards -- is a new USB dongle that brings EV-DO functionality to owners of laptops that lack PC card slots, or adventurous desktop users. Both products are due in the second half of this year, with the router going for "slightly under $200." The USB dongle still lacks a price, but we imagine it will be rather popular, especially for MacBook Pro owners with their incredibly functionless ExpressCard slots.

[Thanks, Michael]

Filed under: Peripherals, Sprint, EV-DO

Tags: dongle, ev-do, ev-do to wifi, Ev-doToWifi, linksys, router, sprint, usb dongle, UsbDongle

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