Already satisfied with your 3G or HSDPA (3.5G) cell phone? Well, wait until you get your hand on WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access). This enhanced technology offers data access rate wayyyyy faster than HSDPA. The good news, you won’t have to wait very long until such WiMAX-ready handset exist, as KDDI Japan already developed one. Recently showcased during CEATEC 2007, the phone is called “AU” and it’s slated to be the first WiMAX-ready phone in the world. Or at least in Japan.

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LG – Nortel has just announced that WiMax Video Phone is its current project. Not much detail about the handset has been revealed. From the outside, it looks like a normal home/land phones with an additional video display and camera module attached. Your face (and your friend’s face) will be transferred over the phone via IEEE 802.16e network.

I’ll post more detail about this phone later when I get more information.

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Along with XNote C1 Tablet PC, LG also displayed its XNote A1 Laptop during CES 2007. Both machines are claimed by the company as the first mobile computers with built-in support for HSDPA and WiMAX connectivities. These two tehnologies provide seamless high-speed access to the internet everywhere, as long as there’s a phone signal. Regarding specs, measures 272 x 187 x 22.5 ~ 25.5mm and weighs 1.05kg, it is powered by an Intel Dual Core ULV (Ultra-Low Voltage) processors, an Intel 945GM/PM Express chipset, a 1GB DDR2 533Mhz main memory, and an 80GB of hard drive. Furthermore, the laptop is equipped with a 10.6-inch widescreen display with WXGA resolution, an nVidia GeForce Go 7300 graphics engine, Bluetooth, Mobile WiMAX, and Windows XP Media Center Edition OS.

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As mentioned earlier, LG will display its innovative HSDPA tablet PC, XNote C1, during CES 2007 event. Well guys, here goes the detail about this 10.6-inch notebook. Being the first convertible laptop in the world to have integrated support for HSDPA (and WiMAX), it features a 10.6-inch wide touchscreen display with WXGA resolution, an Intel Dual Core ULV processor, an Intel 945GM/PM chipset, an nVidia GeForce Go 7300 graphics engine, a 1GB DDR2 main memory, and a 80GB hard drive. It measures 272 x 203 x 26 ~ 34.7mm and weighs at just 1.25kg.

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Samsung recently introduced a superb combo portable device — SPH-P9000 Deluxe MITs — which is a UMPC, PDA, and phone in one. Unveiled during Mobile WiMAX Summit 2006 event, it is the true convergence device capable of voice and multimedia data communications through Mobile WiMAX technology. Users will have wireless access to the Internet utilizing Mobile WiMAX connectivity, as well as communicate with their friends using CDMA EV-DO mobile phone technology. And thanks to the pre-installed Windows XP operating system, one can expect a various familiar and easy-to-use applications for both productivity tasks and entertainment.

Regarding specs, Samsung P9000 PDA PC Phone features a 1GHz processor, a 5-inch touch screen display, a 30GB of hard drive, a 256MB of RAM, an integrated 1.3 megapixel camera module, WiMAX and CDMA Ev-DO connectivity, and Windows XP OS. Measures 143 x 94 x 29mm and weighs 580g, it is also equipped with a QWERTY keyboard for convenient typing and internet browsing, integrated MP3 player, and VOD. It will be launched in Korea in the first half of 2007.

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Samsung Electronics, during its Mobile Wimax Summit 2006 event, unveiled SPH-M8100, a Wimax-enabled cell phone. Thanks to the incorporated IMS (IP Multimedia Service) technology, users can access data at a blazing 20mbps speed rate, even while they are aboard of a car moving at 60km/h. Of course, various IP-based services are supported as well, including VoIP, voice call, push-to-all service, VOD, and RSS. Along with additional T-DMB and TV out features, M8100 phone can also be used as a Wibro modem, simply by connecting the handset to the PC or laptop.

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