@wolfruler, your n810wm is far from obsolete, it's a damn good device. I would buy one tomorrow if I could, even though I live in UK and there's no wimax service AT ALL!
If you live in USA, there will be wimax service some of the time, some places, so it won't be a dead duck.
And even if wimax fails, I think enterprising hackers will find a way of using the physical interface to the wimax module to do interesting and clever stuff, which is why I'd buy it!

@slingster - go and sling your mud elsewhere. why not shove off to some microsoft site where you can moan about DRM & TPM, windows worms viruses and trojans, and closed-source lock-ins. we members of ITT are very happy with our devices and because they're open, they don't become instantly useless like a Zune would be if MS closed shop. We accept technical upgrades as an opportunity, not a rejection.

At one time, I was hoping for this as well, but it seems unlikely. The 810W is not WiMax certified, it has been pulled by Nokia, and it has been reported to not work on the Clear network in Portland. That's why I'm no longer considering buying it.

Wimax is demodulated, etc., in HW, so you can't hack it.