Sprint’s and Clearwire’s merger has been finnaly approved by the FCC which means we should be waiting for more WiMAX support soon. Sprint has shared it’s XOHM WiMAX with Clearwire and Clearwire has received no less than $3.2 billion of investments from Comcast and Goolgle.

After the merger Clearwire will take care of most aspects of the WiMAX business while Sprint will deal with its Nextel and iDen networks. So let’s see what the next year will bring new in terms of WiMAX support.
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The HTC Max 4G we’ve shown you earlier this week will make its way to WiMAX ready networks, like the Russian Yota. The video above will give you a preview of what the Max 4G is all about but it’s the language you won’t understand. The comparison between the iPhone and the Max 4G should be pretty clear right? At least we get to see it on video as we won’t see it live soon in our non-WiMAX network.

As the title goes you just might be able to imagine where I am heading. You all know HTC right? And what a year they had so far! Well HTC has just announced their latest smartphone, the HTC Max 4G, which will support both GSM and WiMax networks. The phone will run on Windows Mobile 6.1. Professional and it will have the TouchFLO interface on board too.

Here some of its specifications: a 3.8 inch, 480×800 touchscreen, 2 high-resolution camera with autofocus, 8GB internal memory, a built in GPS receiver and much more. It will support tri-band GSM (900/1800/1900MHz) and dual-band WiMAX (2500/2700MHz). It’s almost like a HTC Touch HD with WiMAX support!

It’s going to be available starting with November 26th, but only in Russia’s Yota network. Is Sprint going to pick it up soon?
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FCC was pretty busy these days! Besides approving Verizon’s purchase of Alltel, the FCC has analyzed Sprint’s and Clearwire’s partnership and it has given its Ok to their romance too.

We’re looking forward to see how their WiMAX network offspring will work out in the future. The two companies plan to offer its WiMAX services to 140 million people in about 30 months or so. We’ll be looking forward to report more on this beautiful new WiMAX love story.

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Chinese manufacturers want Apple to remove Apple’s 3G and WiFi support in order for its customers to use only its network. On the opposite side of that request is the Korean Telecom company which is asking Apple to include WiBro connectivity in iPods and MacBooks made for the Korean market. WiBro is the Korean WiMAX version. Are we to expect the same request for WiMAX iPhones?

Korean Telecom and Apple have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the iPods and MacBooks but an agreement for the iPhone isn’t official just yet.

Marking the first notebook of the company to support WiMax wireless broadband technology, Asus has unveiled the M50Vm-A1WM, a 15.4-inch laptop that uses Intel’s WiMax/Wi-fi module.

It features the Core 2 Duo P8400 processor at 2.26GHz, 4GB of DDR2 RAM, a 250GB hard drive, the NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS 1024 MB GPU, DVD burner and Windows Vista Business as its operating system.

You can hand over $1399.99 over at NewEgg to own it.

If I am not mistaking, I believe we told you a while ago about HTC getting ready to release one Android device and one WiMAX device by the end of the year. Well what do you know? We have the HTC Dream or the G1 which is the first Android phone. And now we have the T8290 which is a WiMAX HTC Touch.

From what we can figure out it’s a 3.8 inch 480 x 800 WVGA display, WiMAX and GSM support, 802.11g WiFi and Bluetooth 2.0.

How much it costs and when it is going to be available it’s still a mystery. For now the phone has Russian language written all over it so we’re going to wait for HTC official news.

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We’ve already told you that the XOHM was available in various cities, although Sprint was testing it. Starting today the XOHM is official in Baltimore and we have prices for you.

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Sprint’s WiMAX network seems to be ready for action. Although not officially unveiled yet, XOHM is reported to be active in various cities besides Baltimore for testing. That means Sprint subscribers and not only can pick it up if equipped correctly. Here are the cities in which the XOHM is said to be active: Chicago, Boston, Dallas, Philadelphia, Washington D.C. or Northern Virginia. It was time for Sprint to launch the network already. They have been delaying for too long now.

Sprint has been working for quite a while at it’s WiMAX network but it failed to launch the XOHM in Baltimore in September as the company announced earlier on.

It looks like Sprint has turned the XOHM on in Baltimore downtown area today. We have no clear idea yet
on when the XOHM will spread to the entire city. According to words on Baltimore’s streets, a 24-hour unlimited pass will cost $10 while a whole month will cost $35. Additionally you’ll have to purchase WiMAX cards which will be available from $45.

So Baltimore? Do you WiMAX or not?

Remember the Optimus Maximus OLED keyboard? You know, the really cool one? Well that keyboard was designed by Art Lebedev. The same company has developed a WiMAX concept phone together with Russian carrier Scartel.
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As predicted by most, Sprint’s imminent delay of the official launch of it’s XOHM WiMAX network, will push this official release to October. Sprint confirmed September saying that everything was going according to plan. It seems that the plan isn’t that good is it? (more…)

WiMAX is going to be the next big thing whenever we will have full support for it. In the mean time, Motorola has a WiMAX Adapter ready. The USBw 100 adapter will come in three versions: 2.3GHz, 2.5GHz and 3.5GHz so it will work on your favorite network.

The USBw 100 is supposed to hit the market before the end of 2008’s quarter. There’s no pricing announced for it yet but stay tuned! We’re going to have more info for you in the future.

We’re not even fully covered in 3G and cell phone manufacturers and mobile carriers are thinking ahead of our time and they are dreaming about 4G via LTE. Should we let them? Well maybe just this once…
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Sprint’s subscribers have been waiting for their XOHM forever now. The WiMAX based mobile broadband is getting ready to be launched but Sprint managed to leak more info. While waiting for their partnership with Clearwire to be approved, the carrier has started building up a XOHM Member website.

The site has details about the service and about the hardware. For example, the Nokia N810 WiMAX Edition is expected to arrive for Sprint XOHM customers. A XOHM USB modem, a XOHM expresscard modem, a wireless router with Ethernet hub and a XOHM portal are also mentioned.

No prices have been published yet so we’ll be waiting to see if this month is when the XOHM will appear.

The Guys over at Sprint have some financial problems to say the least. We’ve seen them sell a large number of their towers a few weeks ago and we’ve heard rumors about Sprint selling Nextel.

It appears now that Google is interested in a Sprint acquisition. The rumor has been around the block last year too but it appears that now Google has a special interest in Sprint’s WiMAX network now which they would surely use to launch the first Android devices.

For now we don’t have any Android devices and no official news around the matter. Are we to see Google’s XOHM soon?

Here we are with another Eee PC wannabe. Everex are planning to launch a 10.2 inch mini notebook to compete against the Eee PC 1000 series. But Everex is going to add a little cherry on top. Their laptops are rumored to include 3G WWAN and an optional WiMAX connection. Further more, VIA’s original open book used for the Cloudbooks so far might be used for the 10 inch version as well.

We don’t have all the specs yet but here’s what’s rumored on the street about the upcoming 10 inch Everex Cloudbook:

• a 1024 x 600 display with LED backlighting,
• processor: Intel’s Atom or a rival from VIA’s
• up to 2GB of RAM,
• a 1.3-megapixel webcam.
• two USB ports,
• an express card slot
• 4-in-1 memory card reader,
• WiFi b/g,
• HSDPA & HSUPA WWAN,
• dimensions at 263 x 185 x 32mm,
• weight 1.2kg.

This is certainly a more complicated mini laptop than what we’ve seen so far so it might be more expensive than its peers. This Cloudbook might be subsidized by wireless providers but this is another unconfirmed rumor. The smaller 8.9 inch version will be launched in Taiwan and Japan by the end of August while the US customers will get these WiMAX Cloudbooks in September.

Don’t look now but the XOHM is ready to be launched by Sprint. By XOHM I mean a high speed WiMAX network Sprint had in development for way too long, and by ready I mean sometime this September.
The lucky subscribers that chose Sprint in Baltimore are the ones to try the XOHM when it finally gets released. It has been tested so far in the Chicago and Baltimore-Washington D.C areas and I’d assume it will hit more markets later on.
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Fujitsu isn’t happy with Intel playing more and more with the WiMAX module market and it’s ready for action. Fujitsu Microelectronics, which basically is a supplier of semiconductor products including WiMAX has partnered up with other Taiwanese PC and mobile peripherals makers. Their ultimate goal is to include WiMAX modules in various mobile devices in the near future. That’s good news for all laptop and smartphone owners looking that missing WiMAX built-in module in their life.
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Qsida is proposing a dual mode and WiMAX handset. The prototype doesn’t have a name yet but what’s in a name after all. This phone will support regular GSM/GPR/EDGE , 802.16e WiMAX and WiFi. Hooray for all that, when can we get one? How much does it cost? Can we have a bigger screen there? Is it a touchscreen>

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