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$160 dollar smartphone gives a glimpse of LTE's future |
March 27, 2014
The £99 (US$160) price for U.K. carrier EE’s smartphone Kestrel without a contract gives a glimpse of a future with low-cost LTE devices, and is also an aggressive move by Qualcomm as competition in the chipset sector increases.Smartphones such as the Motorola Moto G and the Lumia 520 from Nokia lack LTE support, but a burgeoning chip war and the technology’s growing popularity will help improve their successors. The introduction of Kestrel is an early sign of that development.In addition to LTE with a theoretical download speed of 150Mbps (bits per second), it has a 4.5-inch screen with 960 x 540 pixel resolution. The phone is made by Huawei Technologies and has a quad-core Snapdragon 400 processor from Qualcomm. It uses Android 4.3 and will start shipping at the end of April.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2124701/160-dollar-smartphone-gives-a-glimpse-of-ltes-future.html#tk.rss_all
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