Thread: Any way to get internet continuousy w/o WIMAX?
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2008-04-07 , 00:39
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Originally Posted by MstPrgmr View Post
I was strongly considering selling my N800 to get a N810, but I think I will wait till the wimax version comes out before making the switch. Is there any place where I can get concrete information on this new wimax tablet? The video is pretty useless and gives no details.
It's an N810—with WiMAX.

Seriously, though. There's not all that much to know until we get closer to release. What we know basically amounts to: there's nothing new and exciting on the hardware front (aside from the WiMAX radio and black/orange), and the software front is just Diablo. As far as Sprint goes, XOHM is contractless and priced somewhere between $30-$60 depending on bandwidth (1-4Mbps). Supposedly they may also have daily access available.

Coverage seems spotty at best, D.C. and Chicago are definitely covered, but I couldn't find any good, centralized info on other locations—there are more, though.

As far as international support goes, we don't know yet. There are a variety of frequencies it's being deployed on (2.5GHz in the US with XOHM), so new versions will obviously be required for support in a lot of EU locations. Canada may not need much of a hardware change, but things aren't (seemingly) as in-shape as I was thinking. Not sure how locked-in to Sprint the software-side of things is yet.