Acer announces Wimax Laptop

Despite all of the bad press you have been reading about Wimax, some deserved and some FUD, the Wimax devices are coming. Acer is the first mainstream notebook maker to announce a laptop with built in Wimax capability.

The Acer Aspire 5920 is already being manufactured by notebook PC contract maker Quanta Computer and could be available by the end of this year.

The notebook will be sold along with WiMax service in a manner similar to the way mobile phones are sold along with service packages, said Trisha Pan, a product marketing manager at Acer, on the sidelines of a WiMax news conference in Taipei.

Intel is also buying some of the laptops for testing, said Pan. The laptops will be made available to all WiMax network operators. They won’t be out until Sprint or other companies start selling the devices with their WiMax services. (Yahoo)

This is only the first of many to come. There are small pockets of successful Wimax deployments in the US and extensive success stories world wide making a ready market for Wimax enabled devices. In the near future a tech writer who is touting the alledgedly superior LTE will be transmitting said article via Wimax while waiting for the telcos to deploy LTE.