SlashGear JapanSprint has officially announced its new 4G XOHM WiMAX high-speed WWAN service operating in Baltimore, and with it several new WiMAX-enabled notebooks from Acer, ASUS, Lenovo, Toshiba. The PCs will use Intel’s combined WiMAX/WiFi module, an optional feature for Intel Centrino 2-based laptops, and which Dell, Panasonic, Samsung and Sony have all promised will be integrated in select notebooks of their own in 2009. Alternatively a USB WiMAX dongle, made by ZTE, can be used to add WiMAX to other devices; Nokia’s N810 WiMAX Edition Internet Tablet will also go on sale later this month.
Baltimore was the first city to get Sprint’s XOHM WiMax service, so of course, people are giving it a tryout. And it seems the system provides for fairly fast download speeds, though signal strength is apparently the most important thing when it comes to having a good experience or a decidedly so-so one.
