What’s this fascination we have with getting having ever faster wireless data connections? First it was 2G, then there was WiFi on handsets, then 3G came along, and now we’re looking forward to 4G technologies like LTE to deliver true broadband-like data speeds over the air. Not that downloading entire firmware updates or even movies in a matter of minutes is a bad thing, but don’t the old days of dial-up data speeds on our mobile phones spark a nostalgic longing?
I kid, I kid. Of course faster data is good. There’s nothing better than having the entire world’s collective knowledge-base (you know, music videos and sneezing baby pandas) readily accessible on your mobile phone. So, in keeping with the trend of pushing out hardware and technologies capable of reaching faster and faster data speeds, NXP has announced their NXP PNX6910 as the “world’s fastest high-bandwidth cellular soft modem.” The PNX6910 surfs LTE (4G), HSPA (3.5G), UMTS (3G), EDGE (2.5G), GPRS (2G), and GSM networks with ease, and can pull down data at 150Mbps while pushing data at 50Mbps upstream.
This new NXP PNX6910 modem isn’t slated to go live until Q2 2009, but when it launches, handset manufacturers around the world won’t be lacking for want of a viable wireless broadband modem. And, with support for everything from future 4G standards down to the 2G standard of yester-year, the NXP PNX6910 is going to make sure that wireless data isn’t a problem on any GSM-based network.