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Sprint today announced more WiMAX target cities for 2010, adding Cincinnati, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Miami, Pittsburgh, Salt Lake City and St. Louis to their list of 4G-enabled locales.

Sprint’s WiMAX service is currently available in 27 cities, including Baltimore, Seattle, Las Vegas and Philadelphia. Earlier this year, Sprint said they were bringing WiMax to Boston, Denver, Kansas City, Houston, Minneapolis, New York, San Francisco and Washington, D.C., in 2010. They aim to hit a goal of 120 million people covered by WiMAX this year, according to a press release.

Yesterday I drove around with Sprint’s WiMAX execs to see their network’s up-to-12 megabit/second download speeds, and heard them reiterate their commitment to keeping their WiMAX plans unlimited. Sprint WiMAX service is currently available on two modems and a WiMax-to-Wi-Fi router, but Sprint is widely expected to release a WiMAX smartphone later today here at the CTIA Wireless trade show.

The new Eye-Fi “X2” series we saw at CES is hitting store shelves and FedEx trucks today, bringing with it 802.11n radios, Class 6 SD card speeds, an “Endless Memory” mode, and expanded storage. What’s perhaps even more interesting, however, is the fact that all Eye-Fi cards with an active hotspot account can now use AT&T’s WiFi, which includes Starbucks and McDonald’s in its ever-expanding grasp. The pricing tiers are pure Eye-Fi, of course, with the $50 Connect X2 offering JPEG uploads to sharing sites like Flickr, Facebook, and YouTube, along with 4GB of storage; the $100 Explore X2, which chews 8GB of capacity, and includes geotagging, uploading to the user’s own computer over a WiFi network, and a year of free hotspot service; and finally the Eye-Fi Pro X2, with 8GB of storage, JPEG and RAW uploads, and support for creating ad hoc WiFi connections with a computer, all for the low, low price of $150. All the cards are available today at major retailers, PR is after the break.

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