LTE approved by 80 of the industries biggest — 326Mbps downloads on track for 2010
Posted Jan 23rd 2008 8:53AM by Thomas Ricker
Filed under: Wireless
LTE took another big step forward with an announced specification approval by the 3GPP. Who are they, exactly? Try China Mobile, DoCoMo, ETRI, Motorola, Nokia, Intel, LG, Qualcomm, RIM, Verizon, Vodafone, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile… round about 80 of the industries biggest movers. That puts the spec on deck for inclusion in the forthcoming 3GPP Release 8. 3GPP LTE you’ll recall, is the 2010 (at the earliest) next generational followup to today’s GSM/UMTS data networks — just like WiMAX — offering 326Mbps peak downloads (173Mbps demonstrated) and 86Mbps uploads. So hearing Alan Hadden, GSA President, say “LTE is firmly on track” sure sounds sweet to us even if he is just hocking his wares.
P.S. Hey, 3GPP. It’s cute that someone’s kid from your organization designed that logo and all, but seriously, this ain’t Romper Room.
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Remember that formal announcement of Lotus Notes Mail on the iPhone? Right, Apple’s first big corporate iPhone push which the AP said would happen at LotusSphere? Not going to happen, at least not yet. An IBM spokesperson told ZDNet Australia, “It’s not something that (is) ready to go out and market or launch.” In other words, Jobs heard about IBM’s plan to steal his February SDK-launch thunder and shut down the announcement right quick. The most absurd part of all this has to be an enterprise adoption comment made by the so-called analyst, Kevin McIsaac, at IBRS (I be arse?). He said, “I can’t really imagine someone who’s really hip and cool — like an iPhone user — wanting to use Lotus Notes.” Since when do the personal desires of users and corporate IT policy have anything in common Kev?
As you know, American Airlines is prepping in-flight WiFi in addition to, uh, anti-missile systems. Good news on the former, pricing is set. Good if $10 WiFi for flights less than three-hours or $12.95 for longer flights excites your fiscal sweet-spot like it does American’s. Rollout will begin this summer on AA’s 767-200 jets before rolling out across its entire fleet.
Prior to today, it had certainly been a hot, hot minute since we’d heard a peep out of GETAC, but here we are peeking the firm’s second new product in as many days. The E100 tablet PC weighs in at just three pounds, but this dainty gizmo reportedly meets MIL-STD-810F and IP54 standards for “durability and protection against dirt, dust, water, motion, vibration, temperature and other factors that would severely damage or disable a commercial-grade PC.” Beyond its tough attire, you’ll find an 8.4-inch SVGA display (optional sunlight readable) with 800 nits of brightness, an 800MHz Intel Stealey processor, up to 1GB of DDR2 RAM, 60 to 100GB shock-resistant hard drive, 802.11b/g WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0 and optional WWAN / GPS to boot. Sadly, we’re not even given a clue as to how much this bad boy will cost, but we’ll go ahead and assume “pricey” to be on the safe side.
We’ve no idea who whispered in Aurora Systems’ ear that naming your products sans a few letters and with caps lock on was a good idea, but nevertheless, it listened, and it listened good. First up, the firm is cranking out the LAZR IMAGR, which is hailed as a “single panel color field sequential device” (psst, a micro LCD) designed to get VGA resolution into mobile projectors and the like. In case that wasn’t enough, you’ll be thrilled to know that it’s also trumpeting its new LAZR DRIVR, which, contrary to popular belief, actually isn’t Tiger’s latest club of choice. Rather, it’s a chipset designed to “drive both VGA and SVGA resolution panels” while also enabling memory to be “embedded in the driver chip to limit total chipset power consumption.” Sounds pretty spiffy, huh? Or are you still stuck on the names?
