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Sony and Cingular are teaming up to offer the first widely available consumer laptop with Wireless Wide Area Network built in.

The Vaio-T series notebooks will have this technology built-in.

Ideal for highly mobile professionals who need convenient access to e-mail, data and information when on the road, Sony VAIO T-Series notebooks can connect to the Internet just about anywhere there is cellular coverage. An exclusive combination of hardware and software automatically links the notebook to the Cingular Wireless nationwide1 EDGE Network, the fastest national wireless data network in the U.S.

The computers will include Sony’s SmartWi network card, which allows switching between various types of connections.