The Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology and its blazing fast 4G data speeds have been getting more attention as of late. Verizon is gearing up to go live with LTE by early next year, much to the chagrin of Sprint. But, what good is a super-fast LTE network if you don’t have LTE support in your mobile phone? Not much good at all. That’s where Samsung Electronics comes in. Samsung has announced the first LTE chipset designed for use in handsets.
Samsung’s new LTE modem has been dubbed the “Kalmia,” and supports download speeds up to 100Mbps and upstream data speeds of 50Mbps. There’s no way in hell that any commercial LTE network will ever hit 100Mbps, but it’s nice to know the Kalmia modem can pull down insane wireless data speeds if the need should ever arise.
The Kalmia is compliant with the latest 3GPP specs for LTE and is “fully compatible with earlier standards.” Samsung’s LTE chipset will be used in the first commercial LTE device, according to JongKyun Shin, Executive Vice President and head of Samsung Electronics’ Mobile Communications Division. Samsung expects to see the first LTE service going live in 2010. Sounds like Verizon Wireless to us.
[Via: Slashphone]