High-speed phone eases downloads

The Samsung SGH-T578H enables about 20 times faster transfers than GPRS, allowing consumers to download several high-quality MP3 files in less than a minute.

Samsung, NXP Semiconductors and T3G Technologies have released the world's first TD-SCDMA HSDPA/GSM/GPRS/EDGE multimode mobile phone.

Powered by a software-defined modem capable of achieving data transfer rates of 2.8Mbit/s, the Samsung SGH-T578H enables about 20 times faster transfers than GPRS, allowing consumers to download several high-quality MP3 files in less than a minute.

The phone is based on the T3G7210 system solution, using the industry's first soft modem empowered by NXP's Embedded Vector Processor (EVP) to achieve high data transfer and multimode capability.

TD-SCDMA network deployments have been completed in 10 major cities across China, where there are more than 70 million potential subscribers.

This network is planned to be upgraded to support Release 5 (HSDPA) of the TD-SCDMA standard during 2008.

With the Samsung SGH-T578H mobile phone, users will be able to enjoy the widespread deployment of TD-SCDMA infrastructure to support high-speed streaming of multimedia coverage of the Beijing Olympics in 2008.

With this new milestone reached by Samsung, NXP and T3G, the TD-SCDMA standard is rapidly progressing towards the current W-CDMA capabilities.

"By realising 3.5G capabilities on Samsung's SGH-T578H, NXP is driving the commercialisation and adoption of next-generation wireless technologies - not only for China's TD-SCDMA standard, but also proving successful our EVP-based software-defined radio approach", said Marc Cetto, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Mobile and Personal business, NXP Semiconductors.

Johan Pross, CEO of T3G said, "The T3G7210 is the first cellular system solution to use NXP's breakthrough embedded vector processor to support multimode and multistandard platforms, also allowing us to deal with possible changes in the standard or operator requirements".

"It enables mobile phone makers to offer more commercialised handsets with a broad scope of 3G multimedia applications".

Samsung's SGH-T578H is based on the T3G7210 system solution which uses the world's first 2.8Mbit/s HSDPA modem IC, TD60291.

NXP's Adelante VD32040 embedded vector processor enables the modem to achieve 2.8Mbit/s peak data rates and fully supports the 3GPP TDD-LCR Standard Release 5.

The T3G7210 system solution also supports quad-band EDGE and dual band TD-SCDMA with integrated multimedia accelerators to allow for the development of high-end feature phones without the need for additional external co-processors.

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