brick cell phone  Just as HD-DVD lost its format war to Blu-ray,
WiMax is losing the 4G wireless format war to a rival technology
called LTE.  And LTE just scored another victory, as Clearwire
announced it will begin a LTE trial this fall in Phoenix.  Until
now, Clearwire -- whose backers include Sprint Nextel, Intel,
Comcast, and Google -- was the lone major U.S. wireless carrier
to put its weight behind WiMax, mostly because when Sprint's 4G
plans were first announced in 2006, WiMax was all that existed.
Since then, the other major U.S. wireless companies -- AT&T,
Verizon, T-Mobile, etc. -- have all put their weight behind LTE,
snubbing WiMax.  So it makes a lot of sense of Clearwire to
switch over to LTE if it's technically possible. It's becoming
the worldwide standard, and it'll always be easier to get the
best and latest devices for LTE, and not for WiMax.  The WiMax
technology may still be useful for enterprise use, or for
carriers themselves to use to send wireless data from point to
point.  But LTE