LG Launches 2 New 3G Handsets

South Korea's LG Electronics (LGE) has shown off two new 3G (WCDMA) handsets. LGE is showing off two new advanced multimedia WCDMA mobile handsets, models U8100 and U8150, which integrate 2.2 inch 260,000 color TFT-LCDs, 300,000 pixel VGA built-in cameras and 64 polyphony midi chips, and which provide compatibility between 2G and 3G services. As dual folder style products, U8100 and U8150 provide 3G services such as MMS, Video telephony, VOD, WAP2.0, MPEG4 and MP3, making them true multimedia application-optimized mobile handsets. They are the smallest existing tri-band mobile handsets in the world.

Using LGE's WCDMA handsets, Korean service providers successfully completed an international roaming test with J-Phone. Also, in January 2003, LGE developed the world's first WCDMA DBDM mobile handset, which offers interoperability with CDMA2000 1X, and has been testing this with service providers in Korea.

Mr. Kwon, Sung-Tae, Executive Vice President of LGE Handset Laboratory said, "LG's advanced WCDMA technologies were verified after the World Cup by WCDMA infrastructure companies Ericsson and Nokia in continuous systems interoperability tests." He added: "These companies gave positive technological evaluations of LG's WCDMA handsets"

Currently, LGE is accelerating the commercialization of its WCDMA DBDM handset (model: KW-2000) for KTF's WCDMA service launch in November this year in Korea.

Mr. Kenn (Kie Hong) Suh, Executive Vice President of LGE's Overseas Marketing Division said, "The U8100 and the U8150, which will be launched at the ITU show, offer excellent multi media function performance, as requested by service providers, as well as design and quality." He continued, "These products are designed on a basic structure, so extended services requested by the different European 3G service providers can be added."

Posted to the site on 21st October 2003