Apparently, this news has already been circulating in mailing lists. Sprint will offer a Mobile WiMAX-enabled version of Nokia’s N800 Internet Tablet in 2008.
Again, the N800 moves forward. It could never have moved from where it was to a WiMAX enabled tablet in such a short time if it had been running Windows Mobile. That’s for sure. And now its looks like it might lead the way as one of the first carrier promoted personal mobile PC/umpc/whatever they want to call it. I wonder if it will be free with a 24 month contract?
LinuxDevices have the full story including some interesting comments from Ari Jaaksi, head of the open source group at Nokia.
Two questions though. Why WiMAX? The N800 doesn’t have the processing power to handle more than about 1mbps of any incoming data stream. In fact, EDGE would be more suited to the N800 as a WWAN connectivity method. And secondly, if this is a WiMAX-enabled N800 coming out in 2008, does it mean there won’t be any new Nokia tablet hardware in 2008?
