Looks like WiMax technology has finally come of age, and even before Samsung launched their M8000 which uses the WiBro service in Korea, Motorola and Intel Corp. have already announced plans for their collaborative adoption of the mobile WiMax which is based on 802.16e standards.

Now, Nokia jumps on the bandwagon as well as it announces that they will soon start selling WiMax-enabled cellphones by 2008. By the end of 2007 and the first quarter of 2008, the giant mobile communications company would have already sold Flexi WiMAX Base Stations operating in the 2.5 GHz band and in the 3.5 GHz band.

So what's so hot about WiMax? Think of Wi-fi chips embedded in your mobile phone. So, just about any place where a wi-fi cloud is hovering, you can get connected to the Internet via your WiMax-capable mobile phone.

We've already heard of PDAs and other devices in the U.S. and elsewhere in the world which are already WiMax technology as early as now. What makes the technology entirely different from the ordinary Wi-fi setup is that it will be more broadly available. Nokia describes its Flexi WiMAX Base Stations as compact, lightweight, indoor-outdoor compatible, and requires only low power consumption.

WiMax is basically a DSL connection on your mobile phone, and mobile providers won't worry too much, since there's no danger of overloading the system, unlike when a provider gets swamped with an overload of voice calls.