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WiMax World September 27, 2007

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It looks like WiMax World is in full swing in Chi-town and the key players are pulling out all the stops.

Motorola showed off its new 802.16e service to press, analysts, and VIPs on a swanky cruise on the Chicago River, according to RCR Wireless.

A pair of HP tablet PCs used prototype WiMAX PC cards with MIMO antennae technology as they ran incoming and outgoing video feeds between each device, played video from CNN, viewed Web pages and more—all simultaneously. A RAZR-like device that Motorola only called a “WiMAX trial handset” ran a slew of IP-based applications such as VoIP, Web browsing, video clips from YouTube and SMS. Motorola plans to release multimode handset in the second half of 2008. The company also showcased a laptop PC using the WiMAX trial handset for connectivity.

The news media seems to be warming to WiMAX as a near-future device, where all too often in the past there was a sentiment that the technology was years from consumer hands. Rhonda Wickham at Wireless Week, also chirping about the cruise, confirms a December release for a live WiMAX system and calls herself a “converted skeptic.”

Also, there doesn’t seem to be a shortage of product releases coming out of the show.

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