LinuxDevices has discovered that Sprint will be offering an internet tablet similar to Nokia’s N800 next year. This addition to the Mobile WiMAX market will take advantage of Sprint’s 4G wireless services, which may reach more than 100 million people by 2008.
In 2006 Sprint announced their plans to begin the 4G nationwide broadband mobile network and has now made public their plans to use Mobile WiMAX (IEEE 802.16e-2005) to launch this technology.
On the other side, Nokia’s N800 will probably include WiFi and Bluetooth and is moving forward, determined to capture the marketplace.
Via [linuxdevices.com]
Siemens and Nokia are collaborating to perfect the handover of voice calls between corporate Wi-Fi and GSM networks. The two companies will work on certifying the compatibility of software in their products for business clients such as Nokia’s E-series mobile phones and Siemens’ fixed-mobile convergence server called MobileConnect, which is compatible with its HiPath 8000 SoftSwitch. According to Marcus Birkl, vice president of sales for HiPath Wireless LAN at Siemens, Nokia will send some of its handsets to Siemens laboratories for interoperability and quality-of-service tests. To date, Nokia’s E60 phone has been certified to be compatible with MobileConnect, and two other E-series phones, the E61 and E70, are now being tested in Siemens labs.
Via [infoworld.com]
Sprint named Nokia as its main partner in building its WiMax network in four Texas cities — Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, and San Antonio — which is expected to be operational by the first half of next year. Sprint earlier announced that it is teaming up with Motorola and Samsung to provide WiMax connection in Chicago and Washington DC, respectively, in 2008. By the end of that year, the company expects coverage to reach 100 million people in the U.S. Nokia will use its signature products like the Flexi WiMax Base Station, Access Service Network Gateway and NetAct network management platform to deploy Sprint’s network.
Via [informationweek.com]
Intel looks to introduce Nokia’s 3G chip and improved graphics support for Microsoft’s Windows Vista in its next-generation motherboards for notebooks. According to Dadi Perlmutter, who heads Intel’s mobility group, the Santa Rosa package will hit the market in the first half of next year. The company also plans a 2007 release for a new chip using a different architecture from the Core 2 Duo for ultramobile PCs. The chip is expected to eat less power and be considerably smaller than the current mobile designs.
Via [news.zdnet.com]
Nokia has began a trial of unlicensed mobile access or UMA in Oulu near the polar circle in northern Finland. Subscribers with UMA-enabled handsets can make Internet calls when they are within the coverage of an unlicensed wireless network such as Bluetooth or Wi-Fi. When they leave such range, the calls will automatically shift to a connection supported by a GSM, GPRS or UMTS mobile phone network. The test will run for the next two months.
Via [today.reuters.com]
Nokia’s found a great way to sell phones in New York — offer free Wi-Fi Internet access networks in 10 major city parks (including Central Park), and make sure park visitors need one of your phones to tap into the service. Users need a phone like the Nokia N80 and N91 or the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet with built-in wireless Lan capabilities in order to access the free Wi-Fi service. Park representatives feel the service provides park visitors with more options, while Nokia sees it as an opportunity to try out new services with their media industry partners.
Via [vnunet.com]
Nokia announced a host of initiatives in seamless connectivity between cellular and WiFi networks as well as cooperation with other handset makers on interoperability of DVB-H compliant handsets and networks on the opening day of the 3GSM World Congress here.
Via [commsdesign.com]
Nokia is holding fire on mobile WiMax until 2008 as it waits for the market to develop.
Via [vnunet.com]
Nokia has added the Nokia 9300i to its line of smart phones aimed at enterprise business users. The phone supports Wi-Fi, features a full keyboard and has 80MB of memory.
Via [pcworld.com]
The Nokia 770 is not a cell phone, nor a shrunken laptop. Instead, this nifty little handheld tablet computer is designed to do one thing well: Access the Web, anywhere.
Via [msnbc.msn.com]
Nokia has confirmed that it will no longer release business phones without Wi-Fi capability.
Via [vnunet.com]
Nokia today announced that its researchers in Germany have completed a data call over its mobile WiMax 802.16e technology development system.
Via [technewsworld.com]
The tech industry is getting overheated about the long-range broadband access technology WiMax, according to one Nokia exec.
Via [networks.silicon.com]
Mobile phone and network company Nokia and chip giant Intel said on Friday they would step up their efforts and collaboration to make WiMAX a new standard in mobile broadband Internet access.
Via [today.reuters.co.uk]
The World Wide Spectrum Efficiency (WWiSE) consortium, a group of 13 companies developing a complete proposal for the IEEE 802.11 Task Group N (TGn), has announced that Nokia has joined and supports its proposal.
Via [eetuk.com]
