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LG readies world’s first LTE modem chip for mobile phones

December 9, 2008 By Kunal Gangar Leave a Comment

LG’s visionary approach has resulted in a development of mobile phone’s 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE) modem chip . The theoretic speeds suggest 100Mbps for downloading and 50Mbps for uploading but a demonstration by LG showed actual download speeds reaching 60Mbps and upload speeds of 20Mbps, which still surpassed the current HSDPA download speed of 7.6Mbps.

This 13x13mm LTE chip has laid the foundation for future 4G handsets and LG claims that these handsets will appear in the market only by 2010.

Press Release

LG sells 10m LTE smartphones globally
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LG Optimus 3D coming to Europe and other markets in next few weeks
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