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Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo is working with Fujitsu, Sharp and Reneas to make an HSUPA-compatible handset for a 2010 release. The SH-Mobile G4 will boast 5.7 Mbps uplink speeds, which is quite the jump from our current 384kbps. HSUPA is the Yin to HSDPA’s Yang – offering upload speeds that match download. HSDPA is considerably more widespread, but by enabling faster upload speeds, stuff like transmitting live streaming mobile video can become more popular and, for those existing services, higher quality.
Samsung was the first to bring this kind of handset to market with the SCH-M470, but more networks are supporting the technology, and accordingly many more phones will be following. It’s generally easy to think of mobile data usage as a one-way street, but with HSUPA and other high-speed uplink networks gathering steam, I think we’ll have some very interesting doors opening. What do you think – is mobile video the biggest thing to gain from faster upload speeds, or are there other, more impressive possibilities?
[via DoCoMo]
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