Motorola - Sprint announcement may be bigger than iPhone announcement ..

Posted by Open Gardens on September 29th, 2007 - 4:09 am

Sep 28 was a big day .. Motorola and sprint demoed their new WiMAX 802.16e mobile handoffs across a Sprint brand Xohm prototype network on a boat cruising downtown Chicago’s skyscraper-canyoned mid-town river..

It was an event I was hoping to make this week but last the travel was too complex considering I am in orlando this weekend onwards chairing Mobile Web Americas

I am watching this space with great interest.

This announcement may be a game changer and bigger than the iPhone.

Unlike the iPhone announcement, which seems to have got a lot of press, the wimax demo is a fundamentally useful application and extends the network along new dimensions. Like I have always said(In an IP(IMS) world, the mobile device will drive convergence because services shift to the edge of the network – and devices are at the edge of the network ..), existing device manufacturers like Motorola and Nokia will be the big winners of the iPhone hype

Both Intel and Motorola are doing some very interesting work with Wimax

Great to see Motorola with some good news considering a few recent difficult quarters ..

More information at the Motorola site

Original Source: Open Gardens

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Ajit Jaokar is the CEO of a London based publishing company futuretext focussing on mobility and Digital convergence. Ajit Jaokar also chairs Oxford University's next generation mobile applications panel and is working extensively with mobile web 2.0 i.e. the impact of web 2.0 on mobility and digital convergence. His book Mobile web 2.0 will be released in June 2006. He currently plays an advisory role to a number of mobile start-ups in the UK and Scandinavia and works with the governments and trade missions of a number of countries including South Korea, Ireland and the Faroe Islands. He is also a member of the Web 2.0 Working Group.