A Journey to the Levant
KDDI will launch in November a new product and service called au Box.
More information can be found in Asiajin (BTW, a great Blog) and KDDI website.
The Box is a Motorola CPE, supposedly based on KreaTV Open Software Platform.
Searched for more info in Motorola website, looking for “Open Software”, but failed to do it. Is it really open?
Although not officially launched, Chicago has a live Xohm (Mobile WiMAX) network.
The following blog shows a live video of Mobile WiMAX using Motorola USB device and a CPE with WiMAX and VoIP.
Sprint has launched the Xohm network in Baltimore.
For information on service plans, modems and more you can refer to Xohm .
It appears that only two modems are available now,
1) For home usage, Zyxel CPE – price – 80$ (excluding taxes) with 27dbm max power and 5dbi antennas.
2) On the Go – Samsung express card – 60$, only Windows support!
A USB from Samsung will be available soon.
I will follow-up this story in the next few months; A quick search in youtube didn’t return something significant, technorati produces more infromation; More than 100 Blog entries today, including Engadget.
Just go a Nokia E71 (white one), which people claim it has the “Oligarch look”. Extremely happy with it, as it connects very well to the internet, Browser is good and has a decent music player; Already synchronized to my Exchange Server,but still could not get the GPS to properly work, but I am sure it will.
So happy I didn’t fall into the iPhone trap, i.e. having something really cool, that doesn’t really fit my needs.
A quick search found a similar (more lengthy) review by Joel (Joel on Software). He also likes it – Link.