Did You Wake Up Basked in the Warm Glow of Wimax?

There's a pretty good chance you did, especially if you live in the Carolinas: Sprint just flipped the switch on Wimax in a bunch of cities, from Chicago to Raleigh. They may yet hit that 80 market target. [Sprint via Phone Scoop]

ClearWire WiMax Reaches 10 New Markets, Mostly in Texas

If you live in Boise, Idaho or Bellingham, Wash. or one of eight Texas markets (Abilene, More »

Sprint's Selling WiMax for $10 More Than 3G in Atlanta, Portland and Las Vegas

Clearwire WiMax went live in Atlanta, Portland and Las Vegas about a month ago, but now you can buy some 4G action through Sprint, who's selling it for "a $10 per month premium over current Sprint 3G mobile data plans." [Sprint]

WiMax Alert: Boise, Bellingham, and All Over Texas

And so, the the great WiMax rollout continues. On September 1st, 10 new midsized markets across Idaho, Washington and Texas will get WiMax Clear service. Is your crappy town ready for FOUR GEE!?! Let's see: More »

Leaked 2009 Roadmap of Sprint's 4G WiMax Rollout

Engadget stumbled on what appears to be Sprint's WiMax roadmap for the rest of 2009, and it's an odd mix of major and minor cities—with some notable exceptions, especially New York City and San Francisco. More »

WiMax Mac Drivers Come August 17

The Dual WiMax/Sprint 3G dongle is going to get its Mac drivers on August 17, which will let users in those three cities get online without rebooting to Windows. [Yahoo]

Clearwire Opens 4G Wireless in Three New Cities, Only 77 to Go

Remember when Clearwire promised they'd bring WiMax to 80 cities within 18 months? Well, they've started with Las Vegas, Portland and Atlanta (the latter being right in AT&T's backyard), and Sprint is set to take advantage. More »

Clearwire Swears They'll Have WiMax in 80 Markets in 18 Months

Musing on whether they'll position themselves under the teat of federal stimulus funding, Clearwire says they're still gonna have WiMax in 80 markets over the next 18 months. With just nine launching in 2009, good luck. [Unstrung via DSL Reports]

Sprint May Get HTC Hero and Samsung WiMax Device

Details are scarce, but PhoneNews sources claim that Sprint is ready to get on the Android bandwagon. Apparently, they are currently testing the HTC Hero and a Samsung WiMax / CDMA device that runs Android. More »

Pioneer WiMax In-Car PMP Streams Audio, Video From Your Home Server

As inadvertently proved in our uncapped tests, one of the great promises of WiMax is streaming media, everywhere. That's exactly what Pioneer's forthcoming PMP is for. More »

Comcast Bundling WiMax With Cable

Comcast owns some of Clearwire, and so they're going to bundle Clearwire's wireless 4g WiMax network with cable services soon. It'll be in Portland first, by midyear. If it does well, I have no doubt it'll reach the rest of us Comcastards. [Oregonlive]

Sprint Testing LTE Equipment; Whither WiMax?

LTE's been the chosen 4G standard for a while—AT&T, Verizon and others are going that way. Sprint, the lone stalwart, has been pursuing WiMax glory. But GigaOM says now they're evaluating LTE equipment. Wha? More »

WiMax 4G To Hit 80 Markets by 2010; Clearwire Offering 3G/4G Modem Soon

Today, Clearwire announced network rollout plans for the "Clear" WiMax service, in conjunction with Sprint. In 2009, Las Vegas, Atlanta, Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas/Ft. Worth, Baltimore, Seattle, Honolulu and Charlotte are all scheduled to go live; next year, they'll light up New York, Boston, Washington, D.C., Houston and the San Francisco Bay Area. Better yet, subscribers will be getting a 3G/4G modem this summer, that'll do WiMax in their home markets and Sprint EVDO Rev A in other cities—a lustworthy USB dongle if I ever heard of one. [Clearwire]

Is This How Car Makers Think We Talk?

Hughes Telematics stopped by to show us and our buddies at Jalopnik the in-car connected tech they're pitching to OEMs, which was actually pretty great. But it did include this perfect piece of generational misunderstanding. More »

The Analog TV Shutdown Is a Flustercuck of Corporate Money, No One Cares About Consumers

FCC Chairman Kevin Martin (rightly) said that Obama's plan to delay the analog shutdown would create "consumer confusion." But as Ars reports, when government, big corporations and tons of money are involved, it's never about consumers. More »

Clearwire Prepping a WiMax Wi-Fi Router For Portable 4G Hotspots

Clearwire early Wimax adopters will soon be able to buy a portable wi-fi router that will broadcast your ultra-fat 4G pipe to everyone within range of your pocketable little router. More »

Sprint Dual U300 Modem Will Connect to Both EVDO and WiMax

Sprint's partnership with WiMax provider ClearWire looks to be bearing some hardware fruit, with the release of the first dongle to combine 3G cellular and 4G capabilities. More »

3G MSI Wind U120 Available in January, More Promising Models in the Works

MSI has outed some of their plans to Laptop before the CES 2009 info-rush. And their big news is that 3G/WiMax enabled laptops will go on sale in the US this January.

Sprint and Clearwire Marriage Official: WiMax Network Branded "Clear"

The Sprint/Clearwire joint WiMax venture announced back in July is a done deal, as is the $3.2 billion investmentfrom Intel, Google and others. The WiMax network will branded Clear, replacing the stupid Xohm moniker. More »

Leaked HTC T8290 Has Touch HD Resolution, WiMax, Sharp Corners

These images of a new HTC handset from Nedge2k reveal a surprising addition to the Taiwanese company's line: a half Touch HD, half Touch Diamond handset for which WiMax — of all things — is the most salient feature. Such a product might not make sense in most places, but Russia already has more than 20 million people soaking in their WiMax networks and other compatible phones in the pipeline. More »

Acer Aspire One Tested with WiMax

The WiMax Acer Aspire One hasn't even been announced yet (UPDATE: actually, it just was), but Laptop Magazine got their hands on a model and got to poke and prod it to their hearts' content. So how did browsing the web on a tiny WiMax notebook work? Pretty decently. More »

Start Your WiMax Engines With Laptops From Acer, Asus, Lenovo and Toshiba

Sprint's Xohm WiMax network got extra super official today with a party and all, so laptop makers are tossing out confetti in the form of WiMax-enabled notebooks. Here's what you've got to pick from. Acer dropped a pair of Aspire cheapies in 14- and 16-inch sizes, while Asus's 14 and 15-inchers are a bit mo' better for a bit mo' money. Oh, there's more. More »

Sprint WiMax Slowing Down Corporations with "Narrow" Certification Pipeline

Sprint's enticing Xohm WiMax network is slowly making its way across the country, but Lenovo has complained of a major problem with it gaining popularity. According to GigaOM, Lenovo expected to dominate the market with a variety of WiMax products since they had put a lot of time and effort into testing equipment. But Lenovo explained that Sprint is requiring a "narrow" pipeline of internal product testing—something you don't see for Wi-Fi equipment—which has nixed much of their WiMax product line for launch. It's tough to tell where WiMax will go from here, but when a big company like Lenovo can't get products approved for release, it's hard to believe that the countless, smaller companies necessary to drive down prices and promote popularity will break into the market any time soon. [GigaOM]

Acer 14-inch, 16-inch Aspires Are Built for WiMAX

Now that the Baltimore's XOHM network is up and running, companies are scrambling to release WiMAX-enabled notebooks to capitalize on faster-than-EVDO internet. One of the first out the door is Acer, with two new WiMAX sporting Aspires. The Aspire 4930 comes with a 14.1-inch 1280x800 resolution CrystalBrite screen, 3GB RAM, a 320GB hard drive, a webcam, and retails for $900. The 6930 is all that (including the $900 price point), but with a 16-inch screen instead. Both use Intel's Centrino 2-based WiMAX/Wi-Fi modules. Happy on-the-go downloading! More »

Xohm's WiMax Coverage Quietly Live and Working in Six More Cities

We saw Sprint/Clearwire/whoever's Xohm WiMax tested in B-more with speedy results. And now, news from a Xohm employee in Baltimore is that the service is also live and working (albeit in an "unsupported" test capacity) in Chicago, Boston, Dallas, Philadelphia, Washington D.C. and northern Virginia. So anyone with WiMax-enabled hardware in those cities, let us know if you're picking up any sweet 3 mbps pipe out there. [MP3Car]

Xohm Tested Out in Baltimore: Beats EVDO, Unsurprisingly

Laptopmag went ahead and tested out Xohm WiMax goodness, now that it's live in Baltimore. They jammed an ExpressCard Xohm into a Sony Vaio laptop, and compared it to a Kyocera EVDO card running on Verizon, at a spot where both signals were strong. The conclusion? Xohm beats EVDO for speed when doing intensive downloading, such as streaming video, or large file transfers—the top download speed they found for Xohm was 3.05Mbps while EVDO managed just 1.43MBps. So far so groovy, and Laptopmag gave a few more thumbs up to the system, like how it auto-connects when you plug in the adapter, and the daily subscription options. But this isn't much of a surprise—it's designed to be faster—and for now Xohm's coverage is severely limited, to say the least. Check out the link for the full picture. [Laptopmag]

Sprint's Xohm WiMax Will Neuter Heavy Downloaders

For all the talk that Sprint's freshly launched Xohm WiMax would be the openest internets ever and can totally replace your ISP, when it comes to bandwidth-sucking apps, that's not the case. It'll neuter file-sharing applications, or anything else—like VoIP—that uses a lot of bandwidth. More »

Sprint XOHM WiMax Quietly Goes Live In Baltimore

Just over a week ago the word was that Baltimore, the first city in a pilot program for the new wireless tech, might not see WiMax until October. With a minimal announcement and little fanfare, though, it looks like the service has gone live in select parts of the city. The pricing options are interesting though already controversial, as there are different fees for unlimited monthly access depending on whether or not that access comes from one or many locations. More »

Motorola USBW100 WiMax Adapter Allows Easy Wireless Upgrade

If you're tempted to buy into WiMax technology but don't want to purchase a whole new computer to partake, this Motorola USB adapter offers WiMax to any laptop with a USB port. Coming in multiple bands for worldwide compatibility (2.3GHz, 2.5GHz and 3.5 GHz), global travelers will, unfortunately, have to collect all three. No price yet, but we can expect the units to go on sale in Q4 2008. More »

Art Lebedev Develops WiMax, Tri-Band GSM Handset

Earlier this month Russian carrier Scartel partnered with Samsung to bring a WiMax network to around 20 million potential customers in Moscow and St. Petersburg. They have big plans on expanding that network throughout the country, so it only made sense to turn to Russia's premier design team at Art Lebedev to develop a flagship headset to take advantage of the WiMax rollout. What they have come up with is a hot looking WiMax, Wi-Fi and triple-band GSM capable handset with a 850 x 480 screen (most likely touch), dual cameras, a five-position joystick and a microSD slot. Again, this device is only in the design stage and there is no word on what OS it will run, but things are definitely looking good for Russian mobile users so far. More »

Sprint's Xohm WiMax Service Delayed Again, Possibly

We've been talking about Sprint's Xohm Wimax service for ages—tracking its on again, off again status. And now it looks like it's been slightly delayed again, from September to October 6th. A tipster at DSLreports is saying news on coverage, and the all-important pricing scheme will hit September 26th, on Sprint's site. But, according to Gearlog, Sprint's sticking with a September date when asked. So who knows when it'll hit, but we hope its soon so we can check out its promise of super-speedy internet access. [DSLreports via BGR]

Chrysler Gearing Up For In-Car Wi-Fi In 2009 Models Via Autonet

Chrysler is poised to be the first car manufacturer to offer built-in internet access in its vehicles. The service, called Uconnect Web, uses existing wireless data networks for internet access it then shares with devices in the car via Wi-Fi, essentially turning your car into one big hot spot. The core device, which costs $499 to install, can take advantage of WiMAX or EV-DO networks where available through a service called Autonet. The service will sell for $29 a month. We like the idea for some things, like getting traffic and weather updates on the fly, but is the world ready for motorists that are even more distracted while driving? [Twice via CG]