You're looking at the wrong figures. mAh per minute is not a meaningful unit. Multiply the ampere-hour by the voltage and divide by hours of run time. Then you get a meaningful measure of power draw expressed in Joule per second (better known as Watt).
Don't they teach physics at school anymore these days?
Face it, after years of hype, WiMAX is completely DOA. It's barely faster than the current HSPA or EDVO, and by the time both speeds and coverage have improved sufficiently it's competing against LTE, which have all the telco's behind it.
I don't get where all the hype came from anyway. I guess people were thinking that it would combine the high bandwidth and DIY access point with no recurring fees from Wifi with the long range and ubiquitousness of the cell phone 3G / EDVO standards. But it was always going to be either one or the other. And since WiMAX on unlicensed spectrum is even deader than whatever Sprint has been cooking in the past years, it's only going up against the cell phone standards.
And squarely going to lose. The speed is not much higher (if at all). The coverage is far lower. The only thing that may save them at this point is much lower montly fees. Which, mark my words, is not going to happen,. At this point I bet they'll just try to recover some of their huge investments from early adopters before they cut their losses.
True. In the screwy US market you basically have no chance if you don't get carrier deals, because the GSM plans are still as expensive even if you bring your own phone.
In the saner markets in Europe and Asia it might still do well if they price them competitively. Because there, you can actually get the phone subsidy in the form of cashbacks or discounts on your monthly bills if you don't opt for the "free" phone.
Don't get too excited. I'm pretty sure the X4500 and the optical drive are just the usual Lenovo website screwups. They've been known to get a lot of specs wrong on their pages lately. For X4500 graphics they would have to order custom chipset from Intel, which is basically impossible at the quoted price point.
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