Samsung is showing its new Mondi WiMAX handset or perhaps it’s more of a Mobile Internet Device, at the CTIA show in the US, a simple slider with a fully qwerty keyboard sliding out from under it. The device gives a glimpse of what types of services customers will have on WiMAX networks like Clearwire’s Clear.
The Mondi has a 4.3 inch touch screen and takes its name from the Latin word for “world”, and is designed for use with the Clear mobile WiMAX service from Clearwire. The Mondi is a Windows Mobile device, offers Microsoft Office, GPS, direct push email a 3.0 megapixel camera, and Opera browser and HDMI TV Out. It also supports multiple video and audio player formats for entertainment. The Mondi has GPS Navigation and an optical mouse.
The browser on it is the full featured Opera 9.5, and supports the Fring chat system, the presence system Gypsii, and MS Live Messenger. Samsung says Mondi is customizable with a set drag and drop widgets
Like many handsets, the quality of experience will really be dictated by the quality of the network ‘ which for Clear should be superfast with speeds in excess of 1 mbps for each connection, but perhaps not quite as widely available in the US as many would like or expect. Samsung has a lot of experience with this type of device because it has had a WiMAX network in Korea for at least the past two years.