text: how can we get internet access anywhere, anytime? i want to be able to have internet access on my laptop, phone, or pda when i'm traveling on a plane, in a car, or hiking on a mountain.  what is the best technology to enable this? i'm not sure about the pda but for the laptop get a wireless 3g datacard from a phone company. on a phone, you can just use the inbuilt browser on a umts/wcdma network, if you have a phone enabled with those technologies.