HTC launches smartphone adopting next generation communication standard "LTE"

Next-generation high-speed communication service of NTT docomo on December 24 down to 37.5 Mbps maximum, upload maximum 12.5 Mbps (some are maximum down link 75 Mbps, uplink maximum 25 Mbps)LTE (service name is "Xi")Unfortunately, the corresponding terminal released at the time of service start is only a data communication card.

I would like to use not only data communication cards but also voice terminals, smart phones, etc. just to enable much faster communication than before, but the high end Android smartphone "HTC Desire"Or"HTC Desire HD (above picture)"It became clear that the familiar HTC will release LTE compatible smartphones.

Details are as below.
Get Ready, Here Come the LTE Phones: Tech News

According to this article, Peter Chou, CEO (chief executive officer) of Taiwanese manufacturer "HTC" who is rapidly growing, with doubling earnings due to the rapid development of the smartphone market, will be in LTE in 2011 It seems to have revealed that it plans to introduce a corresponding smartphone to the American market.

As a background for launching LTE compatible smartphones, smartphone penetration rates are high in the US, and half of users are expected to shift to smart phones at the end of next year, and major mobile phone company "Verizon" starts LTE service this month from this month , And furthermore rival 'AT & T' is also planning to deploy LTE service in mid-2011.

Incidentally, LTE is planned to introduce 132 carriers in 56 countries, and in addition to NTT DoCoMo, KDDI, SOFTBANK MOBILE, e-Mobile etc. are planned to be introduced. Verizon predicts that mobile phone handsets compatible with LTE will use the existing CDMA2000 network as the voice calling part and will use LTE for the data communication part.