Nokia WI MAX mobile phones releasing at 2008

At a Wi-Max technology conference in Boston, the world's top handset maker Nokia said that it plans to sell Wi-Max technology-enabled phones by 2008. Nokia also unveiled the network technology for Wi-Max. As of now, a computer can easily connect to Wi-Max for fast wireless Internet connection, provided that it is stationary. Nokia is expecting a major breakthrough for a technology that will enable users to connect to Wi-max using their handsets. Nokia announced that they have started the groundwork on Wi-Max ((802.16e)) enabled mobile devices. By doing so, Nokia has joined other hardware makers in the same field. By the end of 2007, Nokia plans to have super high-speed base stations starting at 2.5 GHz bandwidth and by 2008 the bandwidth would go up to 3.5 Ghz.The nokia has formulated plans for this on-going effort. The Nokia Flexi Wi-Max Base Stations will be compact in size, will consume less power and need little physical effort as far as installing and running the Wi-Max networks are concerned. These bases stations will also give Nokia enough room for future upgrades. Nokia can change from 3G to 4G in future depending on the increase in traffic. Previously, these base stations were used just for transmitting HSDPA and W-CDMA third-generation cellular signals.Currently, top players like Intel, Nokia, Samsung and Motorola all support the open-standard Wi-Max as an alternative to broadband Internet connection, with the third generation mobile telephony networks. But the Internet can get squeezed if networks fill up with voice callers. Nokia couldn't have got their timing so right, since Sprint Nextel announced last August it intends to roll out a 4 Mbps Wi-Max network by the fourth quarter in 2007. Sprint Nextel intends to use this in tandem to its existing W-CDMA and EV-DO services. Intel has also introduced their system-on-chip (SoC) Wi-max connection 2250. This system-on-chip (Soc) was preciously know as "Rosedale 2". These chips are installed in a mobile radio that includes a broadband modem. The SoC enables handsets to connect to Wi-max Networks. It can also connect to Wi-Max networks like the ones enabled by Nokia's new flexi base station model. Intel claims that its 2250 SoC can handle a discrete Wi-Max channel of up to 10 MHz bandwidth. Plus it offers a special efficiency at 1.9 bps per hertz, so the total maximum throughput comes to 19 Mbps. Though Wi-Max forum admits the perceived maximum throughput today is more like 14 Mbps. These Intel chips are mostly likely to be on Nokia Wi-Max handsets. Nokia and Intel have a long-standing agreement since June 2005 to collaborate on Wi-Max. While Nokia takes keen interest in HSDPA, EV-DO, and Wi-Max for wireless broadband. Intel on the other hand is mainly concerned with just Wi-Max, as the champion of that technology. Intel is also the most prominent advocate in favor of its IEEE standardization.Intel's executive vice president Sean Maloney said that currently the number of carriers providing wireless broadband service worldwide now numbers 40 and the number of performing trials has risen to 225. Intel has unveiled its plan to partner Motorola and Clearwire to conduct a mobile Wi-Max transmission test throughout the city of Portland, Oregon, all through the year.