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According to CrunchGear the FCC filing we read, is about a 4th Generation mobile phone using WiMAX networks. This could mean Megabit connections using the mobile networks to share tracks with people thousands of miles away! "Sprint" network is about to go WiMAX in the near future. EDIT: Todd Bishop says it has nothing to do with a Zune Phone...
Te picture showed to us by CrunchGear comes directly from the future. US is after eastern Asian countries and Europe in 3G mobile networks. It would be a surprise, if Zune would point directly to the new 4G WiMax technology! Keep in mind this is based on tips and speculation, but the FCC filing is a fact.
If this all fits together, it looks like MS is working on a mobile WiMax-enabled Zune Phone, which would have download speeds of up to 2Mbps, fast enough for the Xbox-to-Zune streaming we’ve heard about, and fast enough for just about anything else the Zune Phone might be used for. So now that we know that the Zune Phone is real, and that it’s in development, what else can we say about it? Tons. The first real news is that we can expect to hear an announcement from Redmond about it before March 17, St. Patrick’s Day, at which time we should learn the name of the device. At the same time, we should also learn other launch specifics, and here’s where it gets incredibly juicy; our source says that, pending FCC approval, the specter-like Zune Phone will hit the streets sometime in May, a full month before the iPhone. Read the full CrunchGear article. EDIT: Todd Bishop says the FCC filing has to do with licensing of wireless "white spaces" around the broadcast TV band and its not Zune-related.
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