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Wednesday October 19, 02:29 PM


LG Elec Launches Three-Standard 3G Mobile Phone In China

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BEIJING, Oct 19 Asia Pulse - The world's fourth biggest mobile phone producer, South Korea's LG Electronics Inc. (KSE:066570), has launched a new 3G mobile phone in China, which is able to back the three telecom standards including TD-SCDMA, GSM and WCDMA.

The new model was wholly developed and manufactured by LG Electronics' R&D center based in China, a spokesman of the company said.

It is integrated with the TD-SCDMA chip from one of LGs partners COMMIT, and LG Electronics advanced WCDMA technology. The mobile phone is compatible with video telephone, flow media and Java techniques and keeps the same step with LGs WCDMA mobile phones.

There are so far three mainstream standards for 3rd generation mobile phones (3G), namely WCDMA, CDMA2000 and China-developed TD-SCDMA, the spokesman said. LG Electronics launched the new model after studying the timetable for 3G license issued by the Chinese government.

The China-based R&D center of LG Electronics has been devoted to developing TD-SCDMA mobile phones since its establishment.

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