Don't get me wrong, I'm not happy nor dancing here.

18 months ago, I very much wanted to see WiMAX be the new WWAN of choice. If Sprint had deployed WiMAX here, before September (when I got my G1, and pretty much completely stopped using my N810), I most likely would have bought the N810WME ... perhaps instead of the G1. And, I'd still like to see WiMAX be the dominant 4Gish WWAN. I'm much less optimistic about that happening, so my practical/pragmatic side is starting to look forward to LTE ... but that's neither here nor there. I think an N810 LTE Edition would have been even more ill advised, so this isn't about "which 4G technology would have been best".

My point here isn't about "WiMAX vs LTE, in the future". It's about these last 18 months. In these last 18 months, it would have made orders of magnitude more sense to have announced and deployed an EVDO and/or an HSPA tablet, instead of WiMAX. Therefore, it's no surprise to me to see Nokia pulling back on the N810WME.

And, I suspect I've belabored my point now :-}