[maemo-developers] Product roadmap

[From: John Holmblad]

AJ,

interestingly, just today I was driving around the neighborhoods 
(residential) in the vicinity of Sprints' HQ and there are work crews 
putting up mobile radio towers of a kind that I have not seen before. 
Furthermore they are being mounted on telephone poles which is unusual 
for this area. Given the demographics of the zip codes where these are 
being deployed, it appears to me that the owner of these radios (Sprint 
I suspect) is targeting the residential market more than the mobile 
market but I could be wrong on this. I know that in his commentary to 
the press, that Sprint CTO, Barry West ,indicated that with the Xohm 
(WIMAX) service, the cell-to-cell "handoff experience", for now at 
least, is going to be more like 802.11 radio-to-radio handoff than the 
mobile (voice) flawlessly seamless (tee-hee) handoff process.

Nonetheless I look forward to getting one of the WIMAX enabled Nokia 
Internet Tablets as soon as they become available so I can test/use it 
on the Xohm network.

Best Regards,

 

John Holmblad

 

Acadia Secure Networks, LLC

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maemo at bitblit.net wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, John Mitchell wrote:
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>   
>>    Agreed. I have thought this exact thing when the 770 was so quickly
>> dropped. Why does Nokia have such problems with communicating with the
>> community that has brought it so much?
>>     
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> This eWeek article about Sprint's WiMax rollout (which launches end of 
> April) mentions this:
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> "It plans to offer only a data card for laptops and a modem for desktop 
> computers when it kicks off the service, and has no immediate plans to 
> sell phones that include the technology, West said. Other devices will be 
> sold through electronics retailers rather than Sprint, he said.
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> West said he expects up to 10 WiMax devices to be available at the time 
> Sprint launches its service. One of them is a Web browsing device that 
> Nokia plans to sell."
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> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/Sprint-WiMax-on-Track-for-End-of-April/
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