[Shahryar Posted Jun 19th 2008 10:14AM]

Excellent news. I live in between Baltimore and DC, and I also spend a lot of time in Chicago (where my wife's family).

So I've got my Mogul now for Sprint (Secondary phone w/ Sprint mainly for work - My main phone is a N76 w/ T-mobile).

What should I be looking to replace my Mogul with in the upcoming months? How much more than the $15 I pay for EV-DO a month on my Mogul will this cost? I don't want to get an extra data card or something for my laptop on top of what I pay for my cell so I hope I can (continue to) get away with tethering or at least have a an option to pay a little more.

I remember posting back in Jan 2007 about this (quick search helped me find the specific post here: http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/sprint-announces-large-scale-wimax-rollout-starts-with-chicago/1#c3098876 )

I'm glad they stuck with the main cities they committed to.

[marlboro (Unverified) Posted Jun 19th 2008 11:15AM]

last i saw i think intel is coming out a wifi/wiwax internal card for laptops

i wouldn't buy another phone type of device if u all ready have tmobile get a decent mid or ultra portable and some from what i been reading r coming out already wimax enable

as for how much it coast i am not for sure but last i read some where it was like 50 bucks for wimaxs but when considering u r ditching your cell service and that what i would do if i was u it not bad and would be worth to me as i would have nokia n810 and a laptop both running on wimax

but seing how they also partnering up with some other many stream carries like comcast who most likely make it like and add on service of some sort i cant say for sure what it would coast


if this goes over well and has realy good connection
home and on the go i probable just get rid my home internet and get this as my man service



but thats alot if for me and where i live but sounds like thats what u should think about considering it being deployed every where u r


and yes i am jealous

[Shahryar Posted Jun 19th 2008 12:33PM]

don't get too jealous. This is one of the first times I've seen us get something first. I wish we here in DC/Baltimore were getting the T-mobile 3G bands first (but then again, I'm not sure if there's a T-mobile 3G compatible phone out there that I want anyways). NY can enjoy that for now...

Hmm.. at $50 a month, I'll have to think this through.

My main phone's my T-mobile/N76 phone and I care more about my phone needs out of that (small, ease of texting, etc.). My secondary phone is my Sprint Mogul, my data intensive/PDA phone and that's what I keep handy on my for all my data needs (word documents, internet, etc). Because it's my secondary phone, I don't make too many calls on it and stick to using it for mainly non-personal needs (I have an insanely cheap plan back from the old days so that's why I can keep the 2nd phone around).

I would love if Sprint had a larger, Nokia portable like tablet w/ phone functionality too. It'd be really ideal for those like me, and I think more and more people are starting to carry 2 phones. If I Got something like the Nokia WiMAX tablet as it is, that would mean I'm keeping 3 gadgets on me at all times and that's just too much.

As fast as this would be, I doubt this could replace my FIOS at home which I Believe is either 15mbps down or maybe even higher (I pay $50 a month for it). So I don't think I'll be replacing that anytime soon.

Thanks for taking the time for the feedback marlboro - you see my thoughts above on Sprint as a company? After writing it, I thought what the heck, and just fired off an email to [e-mail] with a summary of thoughts. Let's see if he or at least someone else with some say reads it and agrees. The cell phone industry's always been a passion of mine. I'm working in IT and also on my MBA so maybe one day I'll have an opportunity to get more involved with cell phones.