Honest 836 Report post Posted September 30, 2008 ZTE Launches The U990 ZTE Corporation has officially announced the U990 device - an HSDPA TD-SCDMA mobile handset. This handset, first unveiled last week, is ZTE's third high-end TD-SCDMA mobile handset model and will soon be available in the market. The two other previous models were the U980 and U981. The U990 has a transmission rate of up to 2.8 Mbps and supports dual mode TD-SCDMA/EDGE allowing seamless transition between the two networks. It runs on Windows Mobile 6.0, is 3G and EDGE-enabled and equipped with both GPS/AGPS navigation technologies. "We are proud to be the first company in the industry to offer HSPDA mobile handset with TD-SCDMA intelligence, truly another significant achievement for our handset business. Our technology know-how and excellent product offering reaffirm our leading position in the mobile handset area. We are introducing this home-grown technology to worldwide market to provide end users the best mobile experience," said Mr. He Shiyou, Executive Vice President of ZTE Corporation. Courtesy : Tech2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nellorian 23 Report post Posted October 1, 2008 Please clarify whether this phone will work on CDMA Tech or on GSM Tech Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
HetalDP 947 Report post Posted October 1, 2008 TD-SCDMA (Time Division-Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access) Is Mixture of what we called GSM and CDMA and it also support GSM as Backward Support. This hand set will not run on CDMA Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kshah 452 Report post Posted October 1, 2008 TD-SCDMA is technology promoted by China and china has big stake in it. Qualcomm is trying to stall their plans to deploy TD-SCDMA in china as standard technology. Anywahy, thanks for information. I feel very happy when some country other than US and Europe try to break monopoly. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
HetalDP 947 Report post Posted October 1, 2008 GSM is Prety open Standard and HSDPA is having some Patent related to RF and Duplexing but does not affect too much. TD-SCDMA may never see light of day. it was planned in 2005 Announced in 2006. But The Success is still unknow we have seen CDMA Telstra of Australia have shutdown EDVO and now Completely on HSDPA Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
