Motorola showcases Mobile WiMax chipset
Hardware News, Wireless-Mobile September 26th, 2007
Motorola showcases Mobile WiMax chipset
US based mobile phone maker Motorola has showcased a mobile WiMax chipset which they are going to include in some of their upcoming mobile products in the future.
Motorola said that the chipset has been designed to support WiMax wireless wide-area networks.
They are planning to have handsets with this chipset launched in the market next year. Sprint Nextel is one company which is developing a network for WiMax services.
Motorola added that this chipset is designed for WiMax 802.16e compliance.
Gary Koerper, VP of platform planning and systems architecture at Motorola further said: “With this chipset, Motorola has been able to redefine what is possible for WiMax mobile devices, enabling a wider portfolio of devices, from voice-centric handsets to multimedia terminals.”
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Tags: chipset, Mobile Devices, Motorola, Sprint Nextel, WiMax
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Mobile broadcasting with WiMAX will have two facets. The first is the integration of web 2.0 applications, location based services and providing mobile Web with high speed and QoS. This first facet of mobile broadcasting relates to web content, the YouTube, video on demand , RSS feeds and multimedia rich web sites. The second facet is the typical broadcast services i.e. linear TV, streaming video content etc. TV however will not remain linear for long in this manifestation but will get more and more user controlled.
The second dimension of the big bang relates to new devices which will be information enabled by the WiMAX connectivity. These are the media players, gaming devices and handsets which are today powered mostly by WiFi. Amazon Kindle® or equally new innovative devices will get a place in the Sun, as they will no longer be tied to wifi or mobile networks.
The third dimension relates to the growth of the handset, devices and chipset industry which is inevitable, when users are lapping up the new devices and new found freedom.
The fourth dimension will be the way applications are designed. Multimedia content will get much better integrated into application without them being “heavy” or not being to run on mobile networks. An entirely new generation of connected applications will arise which take care of new connectivity available. To an extent it is happening under the M-Taiwan initiative, but what happens next will be much more profound, as it will be based on a much lower cost of components, devices and communications costs.
The fifth dimension will be the network architectures. The new networks need not depend on legacy TDM networks to run packet based services. These will be pure IP based wired and wireless extensions complementing each other for access and backhaul.
The new networks will give a Phillip to mobile TV and mobile multimedia.