CLEAR WiMAX goes live in Las Vegas, Samsung Mondi ships to take advantage

Looking for one more excuse to stay inside and avoid that sweltering Las Vegas heat this summer? Good news, gamblers -- Clearwire's CLEAR WiMAX service has officially gone live across 638 square miles in the greater Las Vegas area. By the books, that's serving right around 1.7 million residents, not including the influx of tourists from other WiMAX-equipped cities that will undoubtedly take advantage. To coincide with the launch, Samsung has also announced that its QWERTY-packin', DivX-friendly Mondi -- which we toyed with back at CTIA -- will be available in Vegas-area Best Buy and Clearwire outlets starting August 1st. Said MID arrives with 4G support, WiFi, GPS, 3 megapixel camera, a QWERTY keypad, a 4.3-inch touchscreen, Opera 9.5 and a customizable set of widgets on top of Windows Mobile. The device is supposedly available now through Samsung's website and "select Samsung authorized distributors," but we're having no lucky hunting one down at present time.

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[(Unverified) Posted Jul 21st 2009 12:55PM]

Does it make phone calls though?

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 21st 2009 3:42PM]

that's nice, I wonder when we will see an LTE version!

[Cingulair Posted Jul 21st 2009 6:24PM]

@Agent .25i

Yeah, supposedly it does do voice.

My only question is what's the range of it doing any of its' features concerning voice or data based on the range of wimax and wi-fi. I mean carriers like At&t and T-Mobile have a small enough 3G footprint which is annoying enough. I can't imagine being limited on coverage period based on the wimax and wifi footprints.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 21st 2009 7:22PM]

Great device but no cdma is a huge minus.. But on the other hand a regular winmo device, a few batteries and wmwifi router will fix that rather quickly... and what are the specs because if its not beatin the crap out of touch pro2 than Im so straight on this guy..

[PeterFnet Posted Jul 21st 2009 11:05PM]

I really want to see what network icon it will use for 4G.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 22nd 2009 2:19AM]

Is winmo device still relevant?