I am posting this note from the road. My wife is driving and I’m busy answering emails and arranging work with collegues from my laptop. The thing that makes this possible is a Sprint EVDO card. From a productivity standpoint, it is well worth the $60 per month. It more than pays for itself if I’m able to squeeze in an extra 30 minutes of work each month.
Pieces of the productivity puzzle.
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The Sprint EVDO device works great to provide internet access to the computer it is attached to… many roadwarriors find it useful to share the EVDO connection with multiple WiFi-enabled devices using the Cradlepoint PHS300 EVDO router: http://www.EVDOinfo.com/phs300
So the amount of work you can do connected in 30 minutes is significantly more than what you can do with reply+send when re-connected? Everything is cloud-based? The phone wouldn’t work for any of this?
Interesting work-style.
I actually like commuting as my brain goes “ahhh, can’t work. can relax.”
@Logan – Yes. If I’m just answering email, I can even do that on my Blackberry. But if I get a call saying that there is a problem with a client’s ERP system, I have to have internet access to get in and check it out.
The types of tasks that I can do offline are the non-emergency type stuff, but I was able to do that before getting the EVDO card.