Motorola shows off X24 WiMAX concept module for cars

While folks 'round these parts are only just now getting their first real taste of WiMAX, Motorola is already looking towards a WiMAX-filled future, where it hopes devices like its X24 concept module will let even your car tap into all that bandwidth floating through the air. Apparently, the device is designed specifically with advanced automotive telemetry in mind, although, as Motorola's Manash Goswami mentions in the interview available at the read link below, the company also isn't ignoring the possibilities for in-car entertainment and other applications. It also sees the chipset at the heart of the X24, the WTM1000, being used in an even broader range of consumer devices, and not just ones made by Motorola. Look for more word on that to come out of the WiMAX World conference next week.

[Via jkOnTheRun]

[john @ Sep 26th 2008 9:12PM]

I'm an apple stakeholder and I believe apple needs to respond to this concept.

[BigD145 @ Sep 26th 2008 9:13PM]

This is not going to help people get off this addiction to oil. So Motorolla is "in bed" with the oil industry?

[raul @ Sep 26th 2008 9:23PM]

not if the car is electric

[raul @ Sep 26th 2008 9:23PM]

Real time anonymous trafic report in the car would be great... Governments checking where I am (specialy when I'm criticising them)... not so much... but then again, commuting is such a waste of time, why not hook it up with some p0rn? Go for it motorola... make Chrome anonymous available too... I don't want my wife finding what's her next birthday gift while she on her way to work.

[Shinigami @ Sep 27th 2008 3:33PM]

Car pr0n: makes your days better :)

[thedesolate1 @ Sep 26th 2008 9:31PM]

Hey how about we actually get the Wimax service ball rolling first?

[whatishalo? @ Sep 26th 2008 10:11PM]

**2 years from now***

5 year old: We have a DVD player in our hybrid

friend: Gag me. DVD players are so 2008. We watch streaming HD movies in our EV

[happy_penguin @ Sep 27th 2008 12:12AM]

It needs crystals.

[kyle allen @ Sep 27th 2008 3:18AM]

isnt that the same little socket thing they used for some old laptop 486 processors? kuz it looks mad similar!

[edward @ Sep 27th 2008 2:43PM]

Uhh doesn't WiMax not have any kind of tower hopping protocol? How do they plan on getting around this? If thay can then I am interested.