Well, I have a Nexus one (best phone I've ever owned and having been in the wireless industry I've had a lot) and a 20Mbps sustained internet connection (ZOOM!). The phone, with a 1Ghz processor, can only register 7-8Mps on any speed test I run through it on wifi (which has a 54Mbps bandwidth limit under ideal conditions, mine gets 23Mbps on my LAN due to neighborhood interference).
Point is, with a WiMax phone like this, your bottleneck shifted from the air interface to the phone's internals. At least it should be, I hear Clearwire clocks in at 3-6Mbps in a lot of areas. Either way, kudos to HTC. The Nexus is my 3rd HTC phone and they've all been solid, though their signal reception isn't comparable to Motorola or Nokia. Then again, no one is.
I wonder what this means for apple... There was some rumors of a 4g iPhone not that long ago.
Yeah, those rumors are crap. Apple isn't releasing an LTE iPhone until there are LTE networks, which won't go public until 2011. And even then, Apple isn't going to be the first manufacturer to market. Apple's strength isn't in technology breakthroughs (the iPhone's screen being the exception), but in user interface and ease of use. In every product category they tend to trail the bleeding edge on features. It's not a bad thing, as it gives them time to let the tech bake a while longer for a better user experience.
Apple won't bother with a WiMax model either. They didn't bother to create a CDMA/EVDO model, and that technology is a lot more prevalent than WiMax will ever be.
