Sprint to launch dual-mode CDMA / WiMAX devices this year?
By Ryan Block 
posted February 29th 2008 7:12AM
posted February 29th 2008 7:12AM
Assuming Sprint can make it -- and that's starting to seem like kind of a big if these days -- CEO Dan Hesse made some comments about the coming 4G revolution, including one auspicious hint about dual-mode CDMA / WiMAX devices this later year for XOHM. It's almost an exciting enough concept for us to forget that even if these devices were forthcoming in 2008, they'd still only be for one of the soft launch markets, and would probably start as a data cards -- not phones. But hey, we're happy to be proven wrong, Sprint.
Actually Nokia will be the first to release a WiMax phone later this year with a "morphing" keyboard.
Probably the wimax-enabled Nokia n810 or n820 device.
--James
"It's almost an exciting enough concept for us to forget that...these devices...would probably start as a data cards -- not phones. "
Who cares about a WiMAX phone? There aren't any cell phones that can even fully take advantage of the speed that EVDO offers. Until cell phone processing speeds increase by leaps and bounds, WiMAX will do you no good on them.
That will be coming right after Q-Chat...which was supposed to launch, what, like three years ago....