Recently WiMAXian featured WiMAX-enabled Taxi equipped with Mobile Internet Device parked at VMAX booth at BROADBAND TAIWAN 2009 in Taipei.

Now we feature another interesting WiMAX device at BROADBAND TAIWAN 2009 with similar function which was car navigation device.

In December 2008 MiTAC International Cooperation (MIC),a well-known Personal Navigation Devices (PNDs) manufacturer with its own brand name as “Mio” and M-Taiwan program office of MoEA launched a WiMAX specific “Explore Taiwan” project.

“Explore Taiwan” targets initially on city/metropolitan to provide wireless broadband services to its citizen and travelers sponsored by M-Taiwan program office. Its broadband mobile service provides POI search, mobile navigation for pedestrian, public transportation (city bus and Metro), as well as Mio car navigation.

The project is to provide rich, real-time, and transparent information including Pull / Push Location Based Services (LBS) for residents and foreign visitors, making Taiwan Metropolis a worldwide model for wireless broadband m-City. The success of the project will be further demonstrated in Shanghai World Expo and Taipei International Flora Expo in 2010.

Recently MiTAC showed off Mio MiBuddy at the M-Taiwan Pavillion at the BROADBAND TAIWAN 2009. Apparently MiTAC’s Mio called MiBuddy because it’s interesting and useful services, such as buddy finder and health care, etc. to promote a friendly and goodwill of metropolis and major cities of Taiwan.

MiBuddy represents the handheld Mobile Internet Navigation Device (MIND) based on the Android operating system and boasting a 4.3-inch screen with embedded mobile WiMAX baseband processor the FourGee™-2150 from Altair Semiconductor.

This will be the first Android-based device for Mio, a departure from Windows CE, the operating system used by all PNDs from the company.

One aim of the Android OS is to make Internet browsing easier, as well as connect to Google services online including Google Maps, Gmail and more.

The FourGee-2150 supports various simultaneous use-cases, including WiMAX and Bluetooth®, WLAN, cellular and GPS that enable it to operate in multi-radio, multi-standard devices, such as smart phones and handheld consumer devices.

Here’s Altair’s FourGee™-2150 specification :

• Full compliance with mobile WiMAX Wave-2 features
• Patent pending ELP™ – Extreme Low Power technology
• Based on Altair’s proprietary “O2P” Software Defined Radio (SDR) architecture, which offers an unparalleled combination of flexibility, performance and power efficiency
• Rigorously IOT and field tested with most base-station and WiMAX network components available today
• Built-in, patent pending solution for coexistence of WiMAX with Bluetooth and WiFi
• Smallest mobile WiMAX processor in the industry, 7×7 mm low-profile Ball Grid Array

Mio MiBuddy is a very thin client that operates with MiBooth to provide service-on-demand and download desired application with associated map data if required over broadband connection.

Whereas MiBooth is the mobile service platform to not only host the services of “Explore Taiwan” and also serve as a platform for existing service and content provider to affiliate to upgrade their existing browser-based web services into a mobile service. MiBooth acts as Mobile Service Operator (MSO) with major focal point to integrate government content as basic service to end customer.

The partnership of MiBooth and MiBuddy allows users to access rich services on the fly at anytime and anywhere so long as MiBuddy gets online.

Enjoy video live coverage BROADBAND TAIWAN 2009 featuring Mio MiBuddy WiMAX-enabled MIND and also WiMAX eBook reader,DMedia WiMAX MID & Modem, WiMAX-enabled Netbook from ACER and MSI.

Press Release Via BroadbandTaiwan

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