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SK Telecom launches HSDPA network with new Samsung SCH-W200
South Korean consumers looking for some serious mobile bandwidth need not wait until June to pick up one of LG's SH100 handsets that we brought you earlier today, because SK Telecom has just announced that their HSDPA network is live in 25 cities as of today, and that a new model from Samsung is available for the rollout. Besides 2G, 3G, and 3.5G data support, the new Samsung SCH-W200 -- which is the first of five impending HSDPA phones, including the SH100, that will available by year's end -- offers both a two megapixel as well as a VGA camera, S-DMB TV capabilities, MP3/AAC playback, text-to-speech, and perhaps most importantly with all these features, multitasking. Although theoretically capable of 12Mbps downstream traffic, SKT's HSDPA network will currently only deliver a relatively pokey 1.8Mbps to the W200 -- with 3.6Mbps promised for later this year -- but claims to be the only WCDMA network in the world to offer guaranteed video conferencing performance through circuit, and not packet, switching. Read- HSDPA rollout Read- HSDPA speeds (subscription required)Read- Samsung SCH-W200
HD video conference from Epson
Now this is a great use of technology and high definition. We wish that we had more info on this but all we have are a few pics and our dreams. Akihabara News is at trade show and Epson is showing off their newest innovation: HD video conferencing. From the looks of the two pics we have, there seems to be a camera on top of the HDTV (50-inch plasma maybe). The HDTV is displaying three pictures and two of them seem to be from the trade shows floor, with the third, at some office. We image the data connection required to do this is something that we Americans can only dream about though. Or be President Logan of 24 'cause he has used stuff like this early on in the season. But WOW, hopefully Akihabara News puts up a HD video of this in action.
