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LG LW20-EV – World’s First Notebook With EvDo Receiver

cosa — Sun, 04 Dec 2005 03:07:57 +0000

We’ve mentioned about the EV-DO notebook from LG before, and now it’s finally released. The X-note Express LW20-EV is the world’s first laptop with integrated EV-DO receiver. Manufactured as a joint development between LG, Intel, and KTF, the EV-DO technology embedded on the notebook will boast the notebook’s connectivity anywhere, even in mountains, undergrounds, and on the move. It has a maximum speed of 2.4 Mbps and much more advanced than GPRS and EDGE.

The LW20-EV blackberry-colored notebook comes with a built-in dual antenna which allows switching between WiFi and EV-DO. That’s good since WiFi coverage is wider than EV-DO. An optional DMB receiver can also be attached.

LG X-note Express LW20-EV specifications:

Intel Pentium M 1.86 Ghz processor
1024MB (1GB) of RAM
60GB hard disk drive
DVD super drive (Hot swappable)
12.1″ WXGA LCD display

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LG Will Release Laptop With EV-DO Receiver

cosa — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 16:55:59 +0000

LG Electronics has announced their plan to release the world’s first laptop equipped with EV-DO receiver. The “X-note Express LW20-EV” notebook series will hit the market in November. The embedded EV-DO receiver technology is developed in cooperation with Intel Korea and KTF.

The notebook is based on the KTF’s EV-DO service which will boast the notebook’s connectivity anywhere, even in mountains, undergrounds, and on the move. It also employs Intel Sonoma platform.

Comes in blackberry color, you can put satellite DMB receiver as an additional device.

Evolution Data Only, Evolution Data Optimized, often abbreviated as EVDO, EV-DO, EvDO, 1xEV-DO or 1xEvDO is a wireless radio broadband data protocol being adopted by many CDMA mobile phone providers in Japan, Korea, the United States and Canada, as part of the CDMA2000 standard. 1xEVDO is pronounced “One Ex-E:- Vee-Dee-Oh.” It is commonly referred in the industry as DO (Dee-Oh). In comparison to the 1xRTT networks being used by these carriers currently or the GPRS and EDGE networks being employed by their GSM competitors, EV-DO is significantly faster, allowing clients download speeds of up to 2.4 Mbit/s.

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Mobile Phone Goes WiFi

cosa — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 02:50:25 +0000

Back in August, Skype announced their plan to release Skype WiFI phone in the future. The Skype’s has also shown the prototype for the Skype WiFi phone. Well, this is not a Skype WiFi phone, but LG Electronics, on Wednesday, announced the development of LG-CL400 mobile phone which is also use WiFi technology. The South Korean handset maker said, in the press release, that it had forces with the US-based Kineto Wireless to develop the Wi-Fi cell phone and LG-CL400 adopted Kineto’s UMA-Compliant Handset Client Software.

Wi-Fi (or Wi-fi, WiFi, Wifi, wifi), short for “Wireless Fidelity”, is a set of standards for wireless local area networks (WLAN) currently based on the IEEE 802.11 specifications. New standards beyond the 802.11 specifications, such as 802.16 are currently in the works, they offer many enhancements, anywhere from longer range to greater transfer speeds. [ source ]

LG-CL400 offers dual mode GSM (2G), GPRS (2.5G), and tri-band (850/1800/900Mhz) network. It is equipped with several multimedia devices, including camera and MP3 player. This WiFi phone also powered by Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) technology, the 3GPP standard for Cellular/Wi-Fi convergence, enables mobile operators to leverage the economic and performance advantages of Wi-Fi/IP access to provide a dramatically improved subscriber experience for mobile voice, data and IMS services.

[ Via Gizmodo ]