Lenovo Preps Six WiMax Laptops for Xohm Launch
Nothing like being called for jury duty the week of the big WiMax party! On the positive side all the waiting is giving us a chance to sift through pages and pages of interview notes from last week’s WiMax World show in Chicago, along with phone interviews that we haven’t had time to process due to the travel.
The one nugget burning a hole in the pile of notebooks is Lenovo’s claim to have six WiMax-enabled laptops that should be good to go veryverysoon after Wednesday’s Xohm kickoff party in Baltimore. David Critchley, worldwide segment marketing manager for ThinkPad product marketing at Lenovo, told us last week that he’d be “surprised” if there was any other vendor with as many WiMax-embedded notebooks as Lenovo for the Xohm network. We expect more details about all of Lenovo’s WiMax offerings (following the showcase X300 model that the company had ready before the Xohm rollout stalled) sometime after Wednesday, so stay tuned.
(Due to our prior civil commitments we won’t be in Baltimore, but we’ll be happy to post reports, notes, pictures of funny shoes or even videos from the event, so send them along! Look for someone who is sure to be on the WiMax Watch, perhaps with a new Nokia tablet in hand?)
UPDATE: Computerworld’s Matt Hamblen, who is doing a great job of covering WiMax news, confirms the Lenovo plans at the Xohm launch. Asus, Acer and Toshiba should deliver before end of year, with Dell and Sony on tap for 2009, which is also stuff you may have read before but still, nice to have confirmation.
