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Provider of 4G chips Beceem Communications used the Mobile World Congress to announce the “game-changing” BCS500 chip that integrates 4G LTE/WiMAX technology. The multi-mode chip supports the latest revisions of the IEEE 802.16 standard (16e and 16m), as well as the 3GPP-LTE standard, based on Release 8 specifications. Beceem goes on to add it’s the only device chip to support UE Class 4 capabilities, and also TDD and FDD configurations for LTE and IEEE 802.16m. This in turn enables real-time band/channel reconfiguration through the so called “autosense” feature that automatically detects the network type.
You may not care about the tech mumbo-jumbo above, but you do care to know it supports up to 150Mbps downlink speeds, which is awesome.
On the downside, Beceem said we’ll have to wait for the second quarter of 2011 to see the BCS500 hitting mass production. Sampling, however, starts in Q4 2010.
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Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
