NTT DoCoMo will demo LTE prototype at MWC, launch service this year
By Vlad Savov 
posted February 1st 2010 4:19AM
posted February 1st 2010 4:19AM
Still on track to launch its LTE network this year, Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo has today announced that its first prototype handset designed specifically to handle all that bandwidth will be unveiled at MWC 2010. We already knew a cool $10.4 billion or thereabouts were to be spent on Japanese LTE deployment, and now we can break that figure down a little by noting that NTT will be spending between $3.3b and $4.4b on its infrastructure alone. All we know of the new phone so far is that it'll be the product of the overall partnership with NEC, Fujitsu and Panasonic, but judging from NTT DoCoMo's last prototype to grace these pages, we're unlikely to be left wanting.
I bet its that phone that went missing in china from the apple employee!
O_O
And wanting we'll be left.
"Jidging" from this post, we will be left wanting from engadget.
jidging ?? jus sayin
@goseki
It's a key off com'n or maybe it's this new pirate lingo going around, now that you can change your languages in Facebook to "Pirate language." Kid you not!
http://www.facebook.com/pages/English-Pirate-language-setting/27618978684
What's with everyone's obsession with Flash? Can't even remember last time I needed it... HTML 5 is the way forward.
@qiUip man, you must have a very faulty memory!
@qiUip So I guess you never watch the embedded videos in engadget posts?
I loved that Nokia - it was my first ever phone and I had it for aaaagggggeesss - two years or something crazy like that.
@thunderbollock Snap, that phone was awesome. I would still have it if it hadn't been stolen.
I had that phone too...loved it. I loved the Nokia 8210 too. These were the trendy phones back in about 2000-2002. I remember having friends who would put the light-up LED antenna on the 5110 and light-up batteries for the 8210.
Ah, memories.....
@needmoregigs
You could get all kinds of wacky fascias for them too. Whole (admittedly small) phone shops full of them. Cheaper than upgrading ;)
@thunderbollock I had that phone and I HATED it... for the same reason I hate the iPhone and all its imitations. The screen breaks, you can't use it for basic phone calls. That 'Navi' button changed frequently between Call and Save while dialog, or between Hang Up and Menu while in a call that you really were a slave of the screen. The only awesome thing on that phone pictured in the post was the Snake game, but that was also present on the Nokia 8260 - the only Nokia phone I've loved. Oh well, none of those Nokia are useful these days because they were D-AMPS (TDMA) based.
@thunderbollock
Me too. Good times.
Nice pic.. LTE on classic Nokia 5110?
ntt docomo pioneering the future of mobile yet again...