Posted on Thursday, April 24 2008 @ 2:20 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Acer
showed off a new laptop with WiMAX for Spring:
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.
Pricing will depend on service plans. The company will reveal more details about the laptop after it officially launches, Pan said.
