Hasta La Gadget!

Clearwire‘s been slowly planting its WiMAX seeds around the country, and with nary a peep, it’s rolled out the service into the Las Vegas area, designated by the image above. According to a company rep, the “official” launch — including new store openings and a marketing blitz — will begin this summer, but for now, it’s operational and ready for those in the know. Portland and Atlanta vacationers, you can now watch your online bank account dwindle faster than you ever could before.

[Via Fierce Wireless; thanks, Zachery]

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Filed under: Cellphones, Wireless

Clearwire sneaks WiMAX into Las Vegas, won’t admit it until Summer originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 10 Jun 2009 04:10:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Clearwire may not be as ubiquitous as you’d like it to be, but it’s taking a huge step forward in hopes of wildly expanding by linking up with Cisco. In essence, the two have joined hands in order to “enhance and expand CLEAR 4G mobile WiMAX services throughout the United States,” with Cisco providing the core infrastructure and Clearwire providing the guidance. Potentially more interesting is the notion that Cisco’s Linksys brand will soon be delivering “new mobile WiMAX devices,” such as routers that will presumably tune to WiFi and WiMAX waves. Specific product details are sorely absent, though Clearwire does reiterate that it’s hoping to have WiMAX service to more than 80 markets across the US by the end of next year.

Filed under: Wireless, Networking

Cisco signs on to provide infrastructure, build Linksys WiMAX routers for Clearwire originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 14 May 2009 08:41:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We keep trying to imagine ourselves at the keys of one Gateway’s new NS50, NO50 or NO20 laptops, sucking down a too-small cup of coffee and completely blown away by a game of minesweeper or an Excel spreadsheet, but it’s just not working for us. Gateway played it pretty safe here on design, and while the internals are just fine, full-up with pro-level parts to boost security and wireless performance (there’s even a WiMAX option), we’re not seeing much of anything to really differentiate the line. The NO50 and NS50 both do 15.4-inch screens, while the NO20 goes 12.1-inches. No word on price, but we’re guessing cheap. They all should be available right about now in European retailers.

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Gateway’s new Europe-bound NS50, NO50 and NO20 boringtops for businesses originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 01 May 2009 05:16:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This one is still only in the very earliest stages, but it looks like MobiTV has taken advantage of the big National Association of Broadcasters Show in Vegas this week to show off a new mobile DTV service that it’s developed in partnership with Sinclair and PBS, which it hopes will eventually find its way to a few interested cellular carriers. The service itself is a combination of free over-the-air DTV broadcasts (from PBS and the CW, at the moment) and subscription-based on-demand content, which would apparently be made available for a seven-day window and be delivered via mobile WiMAX. Unfortunately, there’s no indication whatsoever of a potential roll-out, but it looks like MobiTV will be working hard during the next few days to woo some additional partners, so there’s at least a slight chance that we could be hearing a few more details before the show wraps up later this week.

[Via Phone Scoop]

Filed under: Cellphones, Home Entertainment

MobiTV demonstrates mixTV mobile DTV service originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:43:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It’s all coming together, folks. Merely hours after Gigabyte hosted up a product portal for its T1028 TouchNote, the same occurrence has just went down for the ThinNote S1024 and Booktop M1022. Both rigs were initially introduced last month at CeBIT, and now you can pretty much bank on ’em shipping stateside within the next little while. As for the M1022, you’ll find it bundled with a vertical docking station and packing an N270 or N280 processor, Windows XP Home, 1GB of RAM, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, WiFi, optional WiMAX / HSDPA and a 6-cell battery. The S1024 netbook contains most of the same hardware, but you’ll have to handcraft your own stand if that you’re thing.

[Via iTechNews]

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Gigabyte posts specs for ThinNote S1024 and Booktop M1022 originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:09:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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