WiMAX.Pk – WiMAX portal for Pakistan

Nokia has given us a sneak peak of a Linux-based Internet tablet that is in the works. The device “features an 800-by-480-pixel touchscreen, internal 2 GB of Flash memory, GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and a variant of the Firefox web browser called microB”.

Other than support from chip-makers, such as Intel, mobile devices will play an integral role in the success of WiMAX. This looks like something that would really catch on.

It is also interesting to see how operating systems will manage support for WiMAX. Since the Nokia tablet is based on Linux, the open source world will probably be the first to support various aspects of the technology (drivers, monitoring tools etc.).

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This topic has been under discussion before, but I wasn’t able to find if this really is a serious issue. Here is a report that claims it to be true. WiMAX is undergoing deployment at a very fast pace, though I doubt anybody has taken its effects on satellite communications into consideration. Maybe a detailed study of this issue should be done before we further push the usage of this relatively new technology.