Folks who live in Portland (as well as other places in due time, of course) will soon be able to take advantage of Clearwire’s portable WiMAX-enabled Wi-Fi router knonw as the Clear Spot Personal Hotspot. Available from early April onwards, it is able to host up to eight 802.11 b/g-compatible devices while sharing its 4Mbps bandwidth. Guess this rules out Torrent downloads as well as heavy duty video streaming at full capacity, but standard mail checking and Web surfing ought to be just fine for the $139 device to handle.

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