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News Release from: Anadigics | Subject: AWT6310R
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 11 May 2007
Dual-band power amp aids handset
integration
The AWT6310R dual-band power amplifier module is used by LG Electronics in its VX9400 mobile phone.
Anadigics has begun shipping production volumes of its AWT6310R dual-band power amplifier (PA) module to LG Electronics for its VX9400 mobile phone The VX9400 offers a slim, stylish swing bar design with a large (2.2in) colour LCD screen for optimal (landscape) TV viewing to support Vcast mobile TV, the latest breakthrough in mobile entertainment technology
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 6 Mar 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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The LG VX9400 offers some of the most advanced mobile phone features available to wireless phone users today, including a 1.3Mpixel camera with flash and camcorder that allows users to record up to one hour of consecutive video with an external memory card.
It plays MP3s, streams Vcast video, ability to download 3D games and has stereo Bluetooth capability.
Additionally, with the LG VX9400's easy-to-use multitasking capability, users can take calls, messages and when they hang up return to enjoying the program they were currently watching.
"The LG VX9400 is yet another benchmark in a long line of firsts for LGE mobile phones", said Skott Ahn, President and CEO of LG Electronics Mobile Communications Company.
"The state-of-the-art performance and compact sise of the Anadigics' dual-band CDMA PA module allows us to integrate top-notch multimedia features into the VX9400".
"We are very pleased to be in the ultramodern, feature rich VX9400 phone for Verizon Wireless, it is the ideal TV phone in addition to the multimedia functions that we have come to expect", said Dr Bami Bastani, President and CEO of Anadigics.
"Anadigics' leading line of wireless broadband products positions us to be a strong player in the advanced multimedia 3G handsets for the digital lifestyle".
The AWT6310R dual-band CDMA PA is based on Anadigics' advanced patented InGaP-Plus technology.
The AWT6310R meets increasing demands for higher levels of integration for cellular and PCS frequency bands, ensuring optimal performance for each band, and providing 25% space savings compared with solutions requiring two single-band PAs.
The AWT6310R offers a common Vmode line to simplify the control interface, and supports single-mode operation up to full antenna power.
The 3 x 5mm low profile dual-band PAs are manufactured using a material set consistent with the European Union's Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS).
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