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Nokia Corp., seems to be not stopping at all in its bid to bolster its stock as a mobile phone company. The phone company is planning to add WiMax connectivity to its N-series Internet tablet next year, the company announced in a statement last week.

For the uninitiated, WiMax is a wide-area networking technology that offers faster download speeds than 3G mobile networks and has a wider range than Wi-Fi. Adding WiMax support to the Internet tablets will allow users to surf the Web or make calls using Skype Ltd. away from Wi-Fi hotspots. This will make Nokia’s Internet tablets to use Intel Corp.’s Broad Peak WiMax chipset, the same chip that will be used inside upcoming Centrino laptops that support WiMax. Currently, Nokia is using a version of the Linux operating system.

The current plan is limited to users in the United States. So far, there are no immediate plans announced for other territories.

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