Trimode handset CDMA, WiMAX and WiFi by Sprint Nextel in 2010

Salam…

Just arrived from this link, I read that Sprint Nextell will launch trimode handset CDMA, WiMAX and (maybe) WiFi with (another maybe) Android platform. Wow.. I think this gadget will inline with my Company’s perspective. We know that Telkom has CDMA network with it’s flexi, WiFi with it’s telkom hotspot, and soon will launch WiMAX service (still in development).

This handset will enable full UMA in the customer side. As we know, UMA is a system that gives user an experience to roam from mobile PLMN (licensed spectrum) to WiFi (unlicensed spectrum) or WiMAX (whether on licensed or unilcensed spectrum)

on the article that I filched from the link above, it’s said:

February 12, 2009 (Computerworld) In early 2010, Sprint Nextel Corp. expects to launch a new smartphone that works over high-speed wireless WiMax, CDMA cellular and possibly Wi-Fi.

The actual form factor is “still being finalized,” said Scott Lane, director of marketing and sales for Sprint’s 4G unit, in an interview today.

Lane called the coming device a “trimode handset,” meaning it would function in three wireless modes. Including WiMax and CDMA, the third mode will most likely be Wi-Fi, although that piece has not been confirmed. “It will more than likely have Wi-Fi,” he added.

The WiMax portion could make the device the first stand-alone handset with WiMax capability. It will work over Clearwire Corp.’s Clear WiMax network, which Sprint helped create last year in an ambitious joint venture with Clearwire, Intel Corp., Google Inc. and three cable companies.

The WiMax handset also “could be based on Android” partly because Sprint has a “close relationship with Google,” the main proponent of Android, Lane noted. Still, he said he would not commit to the operating system being based on Android because there are other operating systems that have the processing power to work with high-speed WiMax.

source http://www.computer.com/

can’t wait till the 2010 come (hope I can participate on Telkom’s WiMAX Network development.. ) Twenty ten.. an interesting number I guess.. salam.