BARCELONA (WiMAX Day). Nokia and Intel announced this week that they will abandon a joint effort that began last year to offer 3G HSDPA modules for laptop computers. According to a report in DailyTech, Nokia spokeswoman Eija-Riitta Huovinen said “We have, together with Intel, cancelled the HSDPA (high-speed downlink packet access) module… for very pragmatic reasons. We did not see there was enough for the business case.”

The next generation of Intel Centrino will, however, feature WiMAX connectivity. The Intel WiMAX Connection 2300 chipset that was unveiled in December 2006 and is slated for delivery at the end of 2007.

When the chipset was first announced, Sean Maloney, chief of sales and marketing at Intel, said “The Intel WiMAX Connection 2300 will help speed the deployment of mobile WiMAX, and accelerate the availability of a new wave of ‘personal broadband’ laptops and mobile devices that deliver the real Internet.”