Wednesday, December 10, 2008

First commercial chip for mobile networks LTE from LG

The company LG Electronics today introduced the first chip for cellular phone, which works with networks of standard LTE (4G). According to the manufacturer, this formulation is a significant step towards the creation of the first commercial mobile phones fourth generation (4G). Dimensions of the new chip constitute 13h13 mm.

During the demonstration, provided the chip speed downloading up to 60 Mbps, a speed of sending data from the device up to 20 Mbps. It should be noted that most "fast" commercial mobile phone is currently using HSDPA technology has a speed of 7.2 Mbps. Representatives of LG argue that future mobile phones equipped with such chips will enable download 700 MB of video per minute.

The demonstration used LG mobile phones based on operating system Windows Mobile, reproduce high-quality video using the service VoD (Video on Demand - video on demand). Projections LG, the first LTE network will have to appear in the world by 2010. LTE technology is now experiencing the company Qualcomm Inc., Vodafone Group PLC, Verizon Wireless and KDDI Corp.

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