Less than a year after its release, Nokia announced that it has stopped production of its N810 Internet Tablet – WiMAX Edition. Officially, Nokia indicated that the device had “reached the end of its lifecycle” but the very slow deployment of WiMAX in the U.S. certainly contributed to this decision.
WiMAX, a competitor to LTE technology, has only be deployed by Clearwire in Baltimore and Portland (just announced this week) to date.
Nokia did not rule out future WiMAX products and said that it would “continue to follow the technology and its evolution.”