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Lenovo plans notebooks with mobile broadband
On 2 February 2006, Lenovo announced a Vodafone agreement for ThinkPad T60 and X60 laptops with integrated 3G and GPRS connectivity. The company said the models were due in selected European markets during the second quarter of 2006.
Built-in connectivity, staged capability
Lenovo said HSDPA support would not arrive immediately but could be added later. The source also notes that Dell had announced a similar Vodafone arrangement. These were vendor plans for specific markets and devices, rather than a claim that all laptops or networks were ready for high-speed mobile data.
An early mobile-work proposition
The appeal was access to email, web services and corporate systems without a separate external data card. Yet speed, coverage and cost still mattered. The source reported tests and forecasts from the period, so its performance figures belong to the conditions and equipment of 2006.