LG @ CTIA - Cingular's HSDPA cellphone
It was behind glass, but we managed to sneak a couple of pics of a handset LG is building for Cingular's forthcoming high-speed HSDPA network (HSDPA stands for High-Speed Download Packet Access, and is like an even faster version of UMTS). The LG people were crazy tight-lipped about this one, but the phone was listed as having a maximum download speed of 1.8Mbps (384Kbps up), a built-in multimedia player that can handle all sorts of audio and video formats (H.263, H.264, MPEG4, WMV, MP3, AAC, AAC+, WMA), and support for video and music on demand. Cingular is already testing HSDPA in a few places right now, and from what we're hearing they're probably going to commence their nationwide rollout right around the end of the year, with more and more cities to be added throughout 2006. Click to see a bigger pic.
