LG tests world's first LTE cellphone chip: 60Mbps downloads are go
As mobile service providers ramp-up for the WiMAX vs. LTE battle, LG just announced a significant milestone: the world’s first 3GPP LTE chip for cellphones and data cards. While theoretically capable of 100Mbps/50Mbps download/upload speeds, LG’s 13 x 13-mm chip was able to demonstrate 60Mbps down and 20Mbps up, under what we can only assume to be controlled (read: optimum) conditions — easily besting existing 7.6Mbps HSDPA networks. Great, too bad this isn’t the year 2010 else we’d have a national LTE infrastructure (right!) and we’d all be driving plug-in hybrids (sure).
P.S. We don’t know what those thin handsets are flanking the chips, but we doubt those are functional LTE devices. LG said that it used a “test terminal running Windows Mobile” to demonstrate its new chips. Could be data cards but we think we’re seeing a volume rocker along the side. Check another pic after the break.
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