Given
Nokia Siemens' commitment to getting the technology rolled out with carrier partners on the double and the fact that
Nokia's tie-up with Qualcomm for S60-optimized HSPA and
LTE chipsets will bear fruit in 2010 -- not to mention the fact that multiple carriers will be deploying LTE over the next two years -- it only stands to reason that Espoo would have LTE devices in the pipe sooner rather than later. Indeed, the company has now gone on record saying that it'll have "data intensive" LTE gadgets launched next year, though they've failed to go into the nitty gritty details of what kind of devices those might be. That could very well be where this new rumor comes into play, though:
TheStreet.com is claiming that there's chatter of a Verizon / Nokia partnership that would see a serious full touchscreen multimedia phone launched to help inaugurate Big Red's LTE airwaves -- and considering that Nokia has ramped up its Verizon-branded product portfolio over the past year and
publicly cheered on the carrier for choosing LTE over
WiMAX or
UMB, it's not all that difficult to believe. If the rumored device
comes in a brown pleather wallet, count us in.
[Via
Phone Scoop, thanks papari]
Read - Nokia bringing LTE in 2010
Read - Verizon partnership?
posted Mar 5th 2009 2:21PM
LTE = Blu-ray?
It's nice, but 3G (DVD) is sufficient for most users right now.
Can anyone really educate me if there is a truly compelling reason to rush to a new standard with the next year?
Who hates faster download and upload speeds? Right, nobody.
You can't store 3G in your house like a DVD and DVD player.
For handsets, it's probably not that big a deal right away. I think data cards will be where you will see a lot of initial LTE devices start so show up.
i know i ask this at the risk of being very low ranked, but what is an LTE device?
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=what+is+lte%3F
@Chris Ziegler:
If it wasn't from you, I would of said that it was a dick move. Come on, you have to agree that it's a bit mean.
Perhaps a little... but so was asking that question in this post!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3GPP_Long_Term_Evolution
Not surprising if this happened. I thought the whole point of Nokia and Qualcomm playing nice was so they have access to hybrid LTE/1x-EV chipsets. Producing a standalone LTE device is no good for Verizon customers if you can only use it on like 2% of the network in 2010.
Not surprising. Nokia probably needs to play nice with Qualcomm if they want to do hybrid LTE/CDMA chipsets for Verizon devices.
@ Derbeste: UMTS operators who've already implemented HSPA/HSPA+ have a few years left, but CDMA carriers are reaching the limits of CDMA2000 and its related technologies. They want to get a jump on the next generation. Also, these operators want to switch to a global standard in order to attract business users and the best OEMs. There's also that thing of supporting simultaneous voice and data--it can be done via UMTS/HSPA today but CDMA can't do it.
Thank you, Good sir....
Finally a worthwhile response.
I was particularly unaware that CDMA was incapable of simultanious voice and data. I appreciate the input. :)
One potential negative thing I can see for Verizon handsets is that until they can retire CDMA won't this mean yet another radio in their phones? For example the Storm has Dual–band 800/1900 MHz CDMA/EV–DO Rev. A networks; Quad–Band: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz GSM/GPRS/EDGE networks Single–Band: 2100 MHz UMTS/HSPA networks.
Now throw LTE in there...
The bandwith efficiency with LTE is better than wimax or cdma or gsm is probably the main reason for the new swap.
The LTE might be worldwide standard as a protocol, but probably not as a frequency. At the moment US and europe have different frequencys in use for mobile, and in future too as there would be too mutch other infrastructure changes to use same frequences for both continents.
As for Nokias plans on LTE, when 810 Wimax was dropped it became obvious that there's going to e a swap to LTE. Now I'm waitin for the Nokias announcement of the LTE nettablet.
Ah, the plan calls for 2013 "global coverage bands". I'm smelling a war coming on in the next frequency divicion conferences. It moght be possible to make some global frequencies but if they are going to push for global standard frequency band there are going to be big losers and costs for some continent as the current users need to be moved away. They wont be happy...
@Dorf
They don't necessarily need to support GSM/HSPA....
Great dose that mean onmiahd and nokian n97 for verizon
Haha, a cell phone company planning 20 years ahead. Whats the friggin point of that??
This in't device planning, like shell/touch/candybar planning. It's the future device protocol planning, and what they are planning is kind of inevitable. 2013 seems to be the end of new gsm voice devices and 2020 2G/3G and all devices will be LTE based.
Could be a bit optimistic, at least for developing countries.
Yeah they should just half ass it and wait 'til the last minute.
You, sir, have no idea about economics. They have to plan in the long run. I mean if they had no plans for the future, we can just tell them to shut down and call it a day.
how old are you?
Yeah, we've obviously reached the saturation point for 3G and 3.5G...wait, we're still struggling with broadband.
You forget Nokia is based in Europe. Here we already have operators turning off GSM access since UMTS/3G is so well-covered (3 SE).
What does "global coverage bands" really mean? I don't see the US military giving up the 900mhz and/or 1800mhz frequencies in the US so that networks run on the same freqencies as Europe. What would be wrong with quadband LTE devices?
"Global" generally means "the whole world except North America"
So does this mean Verizon switches to GSM in 2010?
No, they will continue to have CDMA/EV-DO and LTE networks running side by side..
Wow. We're still a long way out from LTE. WiMAX actually has a chance to make quite a splash before the big guns arrive.
I really doubt Verizon will let itself become a bunch of dumb pipes when LTE finally launches.