Nokia, the world’s leading manufacturer of mobile phone handsets, is currently raising aloft its N810 Internet Tablet (WiMAX Edition) for all to see, confident in its device as being able to provide users with an enriched and open Internet experience that will help shape the future of mobile Web services.
Nokia looks to enrich the mobile online experience with the N810 Internet Tablet WiMAX Edition. Credit: Nokia.
Arriving as Nokia’s first foray into the new high-speed arena of WiMAX connectivity -- a superior alternative to Wi-Fi -- the new incarnation of the pocket-sized Nseries N810 Internet Tablet provides full Internet access “without barriers,” outlines Espoo-based Nokia in its official blurb.
Set to be embraced as a marked improvement over current single-point Wi-Fi connections, WiMAX is a standards-based wireless broadband technology being billed as enabling mobile users to access the Net well beyond the restrictions set down by Wi-Fi, while also offering data download speeds typically between 2-4Mbps and ranging up to 10Mbps at peak.
While Wi-Fi connectivity is usually limited to areas of a few hundred feet in size, WiMAX technology functions across a network of interconnected base stations, each of which delivers a range radius of between 2-3 miles, allowing for base station handoffs that will continue coverage for a user passing throughout regions or specific metropolitan areas.
"By delivering the kind of open Internet experience that consumers previously only expected on a desktop PC, the Nokia N810 WiMAX Edition is a compelling example of how next generation broadband wireless technology will not only change the way people think about the Internet, it will change the very nature of the Internet itself," said Ari Virtanen, Vice President of Convergence Products for Nokia.
"Much in the way that the evolution of the fixed Internet from dial-up to broadband enabled a host of new Internet services and changed people's expectations of what an Internet experience should be, the transition to a broadband Internet experience set free from the constraints of a fixed network will spark the next wave of new mobile Internet services, and will forever change the perception of what the Internet can be."
The Nseries N810 WiMAX Edition features an open-source Mozilla-powered Web browser, a full colour and well-sized 4.13-inch touch-screen display, a slide-out full QWERY keyboard.
It also provides support for a wide variety of the tech world’s outstanding Web-based applications to help users strive for the enrichment Nokia is billing. Some of those apps include Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and Instant Messaging services such as the hugely popular free telephony software client Skype, along with Google Talk and Gizmo5.
Music and media content is also ably supported by Rhapsody, which opens the N810 to “millions of songs available to enjoy at a few taps of the screen,” while the tablet’s integrated media player and 2GB of internal memory (expandable to 10GB via a microSD card) allows the device to playback and store a substantial amount of music and video.
Other N810 Internet Table WiMAX Edition features include an on-board GPS system, real-time on-screen mapping, the newly upgraded OS2008 operating system, and Wi-Fi and conventional cellular compatibility via a Bluetooth-equipped mobile phone.
The Nokia N810 Internet Tablet WiMAX Edition is expected to arrive in the United States before the close of summer 2008 throughout areas where WiMAX connectivity is available.
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