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News Release from: Avago Technologies | Subject: Mobile phone components
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 08 September 2004
Innovative RF devices reduce handset
size
Five components from Agilent Technologies have been incorporated into Samsung's new VM-A680 mobile phone.
Five components from Agilent Technologies have been incorporated into Samsung's new VM-A680 mobile phone Agilent's miniature RF filters and highly efficient CDMA power amplifiers provide Samsung with the extra space and power savings to add more features and extend the phone's talk time by 30min
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The Samsung VM-A680 mobile phone is designed to operate in the US PCS and 800MHz frequency bands.
The phone weighs only 95g and features a compact, clamshell design.
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The phone also offers picture and text messaging, personalised ringers and screensavers, voice-activated dialling and a personal organiser.
"Agilent's innovative semiconductor technologies helped Samsung create this ultra-small, feature-rich PCS mobile phone", said Sang-Up Lee, Vice President of CDMA R and D at Samsung Electronics.
"Agilent continues to deliver products that push the size, performance and efficiency envelope, allowing us to win in our markets with highly differentiated mobile handsets".
"The Samsung VM-A680 is a groundbreaking mobile product", said Bryan Ingram, Vice President and General Manager of Agilent's Wireless Semiconductor Division.
"As new technologies shape the future of consumer electronics, Agilent will be at the forefront supporting Samsung with components that enable next-generation communication products designed to fit people's changing lives".
Samsung selected the following five Agilent semiconductor components for the VM-A680.
The Agilent ACMD-7401 is the industry's smallest film bulk acoustic resonator (FBAR) duplexer.
Built with Agilent's innovative Microcap bonded-wafer chip-scale packaging technology, it is 1.4mm high with a 5.0 x 5.0mm footprint - less than one-tenth the volume of competing ceramic devices.
The Agilent ACPF-7002, also using FBAR technology, is the industry's smallest full-band transmit filter at 1.0mm high with a 1.6 x 2.0mm footprint.
The Agilent ACPM-7813 CDMA power amplifier offers the industry's best power-added efficiency rating of 40%, extending mobile phone battery life by 15% and talk time by as much as 30min.
The PA addresses the 800 MHz CDMA/AMPS band.
The Agilent ACPM-7833 CDMA power amplifier operates in the 1900MHz (PCS) range, and also offers industry-best PAE to dramatically extend talk time.
Agilent InGaN (indium gallium nitride) blue ChipLEDs are one of the industry's smallest surface-mount LEDs at 0.6mm high with a 1.6 x 0.8mm footprint.
They offer superior quality and optical performance and are used for keypad backlighting to enhance the aesthetics of the phone. Request a free brochure from Avago Technologies ...
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