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What the heck is a "dongle"?

Asked by Seek (34805points) March 6th, 2010

Okay, I’m obviously way behind on this whole modern technology thing.

I want an e-book reader, but now I’m discovering the wide world of tablet and slate PCs, many of which can be an ebook reader and a gagillion other things at the same time. Alyson likes this.

One of them says it uses a ”3g USB Dongle” when a Wi-Fi network isn’t available. What the hell does that mean?

And to clear things up, the computer I’m currently using is an ‘05 model, I don’t own an iPod or an iPhone, and I use a pre-paid cell phone, so no, I don’t have an app for that.

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