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… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Nokia
Siemens Teams With Nokia On Wi-Fi-GSM Handover
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… Continue Reading
Nokia Signs On To Help With Sprint Nextel’s WiMax Deployment
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… Continue Reading
Intel’s Next-gen Notebooks To Feature Nokia Chip
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… Continue Reading
Nokia Starts Tests Of Wi-Fi Internet Mobile Calls
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… Continue Reading
Nokia Brings Wi-Fi To Central Park
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… Continue Reading
Nokia Pushes Cellular-Wi-Fi Convergence At 3GSM
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]… Continue Reading
Nokia Earmarks 2008 For Mobile WiMax
Nokia is holding fire on mobile WiMax until 2008 as it waits for the market to develop. Via [vnunet.com]… Continue Reading
Nokia Unveils Smart Phone
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]… Continue Reading
Nokia Aims For Wireless Sweet Spot
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]… Continue Reading
Nokia Gets Aggressive On Wi-Fi
Nokia has confirmed that it will no longer release business phones without Wi-Fi capability. Via [vnunet.com]… Continue Reading
Nokia Completes Mobile WiMax Data Call
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]… Continue Reading
WiMax Is Hype, Says Nokia
The tech industry is getting overheated about the long-range broadband access technology WiMax, according to one Nokia exec. Via [networks.silicon.com]… Continue Reading
Nokia And Intel Push To Get WiMAX Out This Year
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]… Continue Reading
Nokia Joins WWiSE Consortium To Develop Wi-Fi Standard
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]… Continue Reading