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Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics Unveil Next-generation HSDPA Phones
Monday, March 07, 2005
By Park Seung-jung


Two leading mobile phone makers in Korea, Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics, have developed HSDPA (high speed downlink access) mobile phones that can transmit data at a speed 7-times faster than 3G mobile handsets now in use.

Both companies said on March 6 that they had successfully developed HSDPA phones that could provide up to 14Mbps mobile environments, a speed 7-folds faster than EV-DO handsets and 6-folds faster than WCDMA systems, respectively.

A number of leading 3G WCDMA wireless communication carriers, including SK Telecom and KTF of Korea, plan to launch early next year HSDPA service, the next-generation high speed multimedia transmission technology.

Having developed an HSDPA handset adopting 1.8Mbps 'MSM6275' chipset of Qualcomm, Samsung Electronics recently conducted test service with SK Telecom using its new handset. The company also developed 'SBM5100', a core modem chip for HSDPA phones, by itself. Samsung Electronics intends to roll out another new HSDPA phone installed with Qualcomm's 7.2Mbps 'MSM6280' chipset in the third quarter of this year.

LG Electronics, which has developed an HSDPA phone installed with 'MSM6275' chipset, successfully carried out test service of the new handset at a maximum downlink speed of 14Mbps at Nortel Research Institute in Paris. LG Electronics developed considerable part of key technologies needed for HSDPA handsets such as channel card by itself.

The two mobile phone makers will unveil their new HSDPA phones at 'CeBIT 2005', a prominent international information technology exposition, scheduled to be held from March 11 through 16 in Hanover, Germany.

Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics plan to roll out their commercial HSDPA handsets toward the end of this year. Meanwhile, Qualcomm and Siemens demonstrated 1.8Mbps HSDPA service at the '3GSM World Congress 2005' held in Cannes, France last month using 'MSM6275' chipset-based Nortel systems.

"HSDPA technology enables to make seamless calls while moving in high speed via cars, subways or express trains, and download large capacity multimedia using mobile phones, PDAs and notebook PCs. Other mobile phone makers are also expected to commercialize high speed HSDPA phones soon," said an industry expert.

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