Ericsson Mobile Platforms AB and LG Electronics Co. Ltd. announced that LG will license an HSPA platform from Ericsson for “ultra-small,” mass-market 3G phones.
Ericsson’s U360 platform includes a reference design, platform software, application-specific integrated circuits and development boards and tools, and is designed to allow handset vendors rapid time-to-market in developing small feature phones that can offer 3.6 megabit per second HSDPA, tri-band W-CDMA and quad-band EDGE/GPRS.
LG already uses some Ericsson platforms.
Interestingly, LG is making a bid to win the GSM Association’s low-cost 3G handset contract, which is designed to foster uptake in the 3G handset market. The contract winner will be announced Monday at the 3GSM World Congress.
LG turns to Ericsson for 3G mobile platform
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