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N810 Wimax Edition: Get it While it's Lukewarm
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Mutiny32
2008-08-08 , 02:21
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I'm in WiMax central (Kansas City, the WHQ of Sprint), so I'll probably grab it on pre-purchase.
As for Nokia supporting WiMax or LTE, it looks like they are embracing both widely instead of one or the other. They have some pretty close partnerships with Intel on their enterprise security division, but they also have some business connections on the LTE side. The one thing that I think will be excess baggage on the LTE side is patents Qualcomm has on key modulation and dsp technologies in it. This is precisely why GSM is the global standard, even though it is technically inferior to CDMA. Sprint and Verizon (as well as several other carriers around the world) have been held hostage by Qualcomm because of their extremely litigious method of instilling their patents on handset makers. Ever wonder why Nokia doesn't make many CDMA handsets? Now you know why. They don't like having to pay the royalties and be cornered by one outside force into designing to their specs.
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