Ericsson unveils M700 LTE platform for mobile devices

The same week that Nokia Siemens Networks unveiled its LTE solution for North America comes a little nugget from Ericsson: the M700. Hailed as the "world's first commercially available LTE-capable platform," it promises peak data transmissions of 100Mbps down and 50Mbps up, which will undoubtedly be the next best thing since sliced bread. Reportedly, initial devices based on the unit will be ExpressCards, USB modems, etc., and of course, it supports bandwidths between 1.4 and 20MHz and the oh-so-exciting 700MHz bands. Unfortunately, a commercial release isn't set to happen until 2009 -- with products "based on the platform" not scheduled until 2010 -- but to its credit, samples of ASICs will be ready to roll sometime this year.

[bob @ Apr 3rd 2008 6:38PM]

look at the symbol in the top right corner, look familiar?

[Aguiluz @ Apr 3rd 2008 6:48PM]

Yes.

http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/08/the-engadget-store/

But... It still lacks two bars.

[Tim @ Apr 3rd 2008 6:39PM]

Looks like the Engadget logo/cyan in the corner. Will you sue them?

[conor @ Apr 3rd 2008 6:42PM]

hey engadget they stole your logo i gues its the best form of flattery

ps: I want LTE NOW!!!

[chris @ Apr 3rd 2008 6:49PM]

iphone should skip 3G and just go for jump on the warp speed wagon. Beam me up Scottie.

[jason @ Apr 3rd 2008 6:59PM]

you mean the RSS Logo? that is a lot closer than the engadget logo. but non-the-less it is a generic commonly used symbol representing distribution

[Odd TSi @ Apr 3rd 2008 8:01PM]

Who cares about the logo. Let's see a closer shot of the chick.

[ThePremierAssassin @ Apr 3rd 2008 8:16PM]

So this phone basically won't be out of a long time right?

[Taylor @ Apr 3rd 2008 8:27PM]

"1.4 and 20MHz and the oh-so-exciting 700MHz bands"

this makes no sense. did you mean: "1.4 and 20Mbps and the oh-so-exciting 700MHz bands"?
-Taylor

[starkruzr @ Apr 3rd 2008 8:53PM]

It's an ASIC, not a phone, and for the purposes of planning your technology purchases you should probably consider the answer to "when will it be out" to be "never." Even if it comes out sometime in the next 4 years, you can count on US telecoms to gimp the hell out of it somehow or make it prohibitively expensive to use.

[Faramir @ Apr 3rd 2008 9:06PM]

Alright. Something new to look forward to. Oh Yes, THAT LOGO! I've seen it before! (rolls eyes)

Fara - http://www.pickmeuptoday.com

[Mr. Zakaria Mohd Sharif @ Apr 4th 2008 12:22AM]

GOOD

[visiondiez @ Apr 4th 2008 2:31AM]

"it supports bandwidths between 1.4 and 20MHz and the oh-so-exciting 700MHz bands"

It means that the bandwidth of the air spectrum used by the radio transmission is variable between 1.4 and 20 MHz, while the carrier frequency will be 700 MHz or thereabouts. In 3G-WCDMA, for instance, the bandwidth is usually fixed at 5 MHz. This is, among other things, what makes it possible to reach peak data rates of up to 100 Mbps.

[babasc @ Apr 4th 2008 10:10AM]

It's going to be more like 2011 before this rolls out. I'm currently working on the main system DSP chip and we are delivering samples in 2010.

[Allen @ Apr 4th 2008 11:25AM]

Funny thing is, that when LTE rolls out, it will be faster than most land based services.

Gimme!

[Grover Saunders @ Apr 4th 2008 2:58PM]

"Funny thing is, that when LTE rolls out, it will be faster than most land based services."

Probably not over here in reality. Theoretically, 3G is supposed to be around 2Mb, and therefore faster than my DSL connection, but you'll not catch me surfing over the cell network at home any time soon. It's not even close. It's one of the reasons I don't care about the iPhone not having 3G. It's never been noticeably faster than Edge in any real world application I've ever experienced.