JasonD
@comcast.net
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Re: Handheld device
Motorola *will* be offering wimax phones, just not in the US. Wimax is a big no-no to their current US cellphone customers (AT&T, VZ, T-Mobile, etc), as they need the end-to-end control over what users can do with the devices.
I know VZ is promising to open up their network, but I doubt if that will include wimax. |
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Dr Demento
I Vant Blud
join:2002-01-02
Denville, NJ
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Well, considering Nokia already announced that they expressed interest in turning their N series internet tablets into WiMax devises at some point.
So I don't see why Motorola wouldn't, considering they no longer have a semiconductor division that could have produced the Wimax chips for individual handsets. As for speculation I can imagine it would be based of the A1200 Ming.
As for any cyberpunk based future being imminent. We still have a few more technological hurdles in the form of nano robotics and studying brainwaves before that is achievable. |
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SD6
join:2005-03-26 | reply to Syian
I can't understand what you're saying except to argue maybe that no one should offer handheld wimax devices. Well, other companies will be offering them, and my question was whether Motorola will offer one. |
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Syian
join:2007-12-20
Gwinn, MI
 ·Charter Pipeline
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why would they? Skype on an unlimited data package? pssh. no one would use the handheld device as a cellphone, and everyone and their mother (read, people like us who like to take what we can do with our tech to the utter edge of whats allowable) would be using these things. Motorola, or any other cell phone manufacturer won't release any truly useful wimax handsets until IPv6 becomes the norm. Why, you ask? because then they can market it as a mobile extension of your PC.
Think about it. Makes an eerie kind of sense. Soon, we'll either be in the world of "The Wired" al la "Serial Experiments Lain" or something closer to Shirow Masamune's "Ghost in the Shell" setting.
Either way, it sounds like it'll be a helluva lot of fun ^^
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i used to belive in people.
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