Samsung 1Gbps 4G mobiles available in 2008
Samsung are on a roll at the moment, releasing new phones by the bucket-load, and showing off world-leading mobile phone technologies at the same time. After announcing they were demonstrating their latest 4G technologies last week, it seems that all the demos they promised actually worked.
Using a specially-designed 4G bus, Samsung showed off 4G technology that provided 32 high-definition channel broadcasts, Internet access and video telephony at the same time. The bus represented the mobile phone of the future - it includes all the hardware, software, protocols and antennae needed for 4G data transmission, just not quite to the same scale mobile phone users expect!
This is typical of mobile phone technology design, though - get the software and protocols sorted first, and then worry about miniaturizing it!
Samsung were able to show a downlink speed of 100Mbps when moving at 60kph, 1Gbps when stationary, and described lab experiments they conducted that reached a maximum of 3.5Gbps when travelling at 5kph.
For those left confused by all these figures, 1Gbps will let you download 300 music files in just 2.4 seconds, or a DVD movie in just 5.6 seconds.
Better still, Samsung President, Lee Ki-Tae reckons Samsung will debut mobile phone-sized 4G handsets in 2008, with full commercial release by 2010. So if you've evern felt the need to download 300 tunes in 2.4 seconds, you don't have too long to wait!
[Source: The Korea Times]
