LG Demonstates 3.5G HSDPA

LG Electronics announced they have successfully demonstrated 3.5G high-speed data transmission at CTIA Wireless 2005, taking place in New Orleans, March 14-16, using Lucent Technology’s 14-Mbps download-supportive W-CDMA system, as well as the company’s own HSDPA-enabled mobile phone. According to the company, the model is the same used in a successful test run at Nortel Lab on 6 March, the first of its kind in the world. 

Equipped with Qualcomm’s MSM 6275 chip, it is the industry?s first multi-mode mobile phone that can support not only the existing 3G WCDMA platform, but also 2G GSM, 2.5G GPRS, and 2.75G EDGE. The company?s successful test runs of the model in Europe and the U.S., both promising WCDMA markets, is profoundly meaningful.

- On March 14, LG Electronics successfully test runs its commercialized 3.5 G HSDPA-enabled mobile handset jointly with Lucent Technology at ‘CTIA Wireless 2005′

- The model enables the realtime downloading of large-capacity DVD videos and multimedia-feature music in a 1.4Mbps transmission environment

- Equipped with the Qualcomm?s MSM 6275 chip, the model supports multiple modes such as GSM/GPRS/EDGE/WCDMA. LG was selected last year as the strategic provider of 3G phones to Cingular and now is keen to fast respond to the North America?s 3G market

- Buoyed by its No. 1 position in North America’s CDMA mobile phone market for a second straight year, the company is focusing on North America?s WCDMA market. Full Press Release Here.