Nokia N810 WiMAX Edition Goes The Way of the Dinosaur
The Nokia N810 WiMAX Edition
Today we bid a fond farewell to the Nokia N810 WiMax Edition, unveiled nine months ago as a revolutionary, next-gen internet tablet. Maybe too revolutionary.
According to Reuters, Nokia has officially “ended production ended production of its only mobile device using the U.S.-centered WiMax technology, another blow for the struggling wireless technology.” The N810 WiMAX Edition (was) a touch-screen tablet with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, based off of the original N810.
There’s a lot of good reasons why Nokia pulled the plug on the N810WE, but this image is probably the best:
WiMAX Forum USA Coverage Map
The fact that it cost a cool $493 and had a battery that only lasted up to 3 hours on WiMAX didn’t help the cause either.
One last note: “Nokia did not rule out introducing further WiMax phones in the future.”
Nokia stops making only WiMax device – Reuters
[...] who recall the Nokia N810 WiMAX Edition also know that Nokia discontinued it not long after its launch. Given the strong momentum behind Verizon’s LTE soultion, that starts to make sense IF [...]