Sidecut Reports

It doesn’t count as a full review, but I did take the Nokia WiMax tablet out for a short test drive on the CTIA show floor Tuesday — and I can attest that the thing does work, the screen looks nice, and if your thumbs are fat like mine you might not like the keyboard, since it is set a bit close to the bottom of the screen.

Still no word from the Sprint folks on when the Xohm WiMax network will go live, or what pricing plans would be. (Barry West, the company’s WiMax tech lead, said “don’t even ask that question” at a press reception Tuesday evening.)

But Hey, Look! Sidecut Reports via WiMax to the Nokia Handset!

News is out today about the pricing of Intel’s Echo Peak combined Wi-Fi/WiMax silicon, at $43-$54 per chip, according to Digitimes. Good news if you are building a WiMax device, since prices should only go down from there.

In terms of finding out who might be shipping such devices, it looks like we will now have to wait until the CTIA show in Vegas in a couple weeks until we hear more about WiMax devices and Sprint’s Xohm launch plans. Sprint VP Ben Vos was here at the VON.x show in San Jose this week, but aside from a few statements about how WiMax will be used, all he would say about Xohm is “stay tuned.”