Nokia N810 WiMAX reaches 'end of life'

Well, that certainly was a quick little experiment, wasn't it? Just months after quietly becoming available, Nokia has just as quietly slapped an "end of life" label on the N810 WiMAX Edition, officially ending Nokia's consumer-level support for the wireless standard -- for the time being, anyhow. Though we've been able to confirm that the discontinuation is official, no word was given as to why it fell off the market so quickly -- Nokia insists that it was a "natural" end of life -- but if we had to take a stab at it, we'd guess the Baltimore-only availability had something to do with it.

[Via MobileBurn]

[UMPCman Posted Jan 8th 2009 7:35AM]

Yikes. Zero comments so far (at least at this point). I guess that tells the tale of this experiment as much as anything did.

Nokia tried to get too much mileage out of the 800 series. We should have been on the next gen by now with a better powered device.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 8th 2009 11:44AM]

The real question is whether an LTE version will be forthcoming. I never expected the WiMAX version to have much impact - mobile WiMAX doesn't seem to have industry support in general, the bulk of WiMAX networks are fixed LoS systems run by WISPs.

I'm excited by LTE. It's what UMTS should have been and would have been had the industry been less conservative and had the CDMA propaganda not been so extreme. GSM, reimplemented as VoIP, running over an all-IP network using WiMAX-like air interface technologies. Yum.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 11th 2009 5:13AM]

What a load of crap, I cant believe that a company like Nokia has such low respect for their customers. They advertised the crap out WiMax and now after just now making it availiable for sale they scrap the whole thing? They should offer some sort of exchange program at a pro rated rate for the next generation IT series. This is just a slap in the face, I wont be shopping Nokia again.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 13th 2009 12:47PM]

hey slow your roll, Nokia is not at total fault. They do have a part in Wimax, but you really should have a gripe with Clearwire and Sprint.