Nokia Demos in Upwardly Mobile WiMAX Boardroom in the Sky

By Editor Wireless and Mobile News on April 1, 2008 10:07 PM

Driving into Vegas on the Way to CTIA Wireless, amongst the cranes constructing mega massive hotel casinos, hanging from one crane was a bunch of blue-suited early adopters strapped on a flying mobile office.

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it a balloon? Nope it's the Nokia upwardly mobile boardroom in the sky!

Nokia demonstrated their every where any time capabilities of their Internet tablet. They strapped participants into chairs on a giant platform and hoisted the ultra mobile board room 180 feet into the air with a crane. The product demonstrated was the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet, which is now WiMAX (802.16e) enabled. The tablet will swtich between WiMAX and Wi-Fi. It will support the Sprint WiMAX network coming later this year.

When I talked to their PR guy at the Nokia table at Pep Com, he said they hired a company that did the elevation for them. I'm not sure what you look it up under in the yellow pages or on Google or Yahoo local with GPS. There were a lot of magicians at Pep Com, but they didn't elevate a room into air. On the way back to the hotel, in Vegas traffic, we wished for a magic carpet ride home.