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Vodafone unveils handsets for Christmas

Mon, 16 Oct 2006

Vodafone unveiled its 3G handset range in time for Christmas. The range will include phones that allow web access with broadband speeds and its first ever devices sourced from South Korea's LG Electronics .

The mobile phone giant, which is trying to push higher paying 3G services to boost their sales growth, said it would sell 10 exclusive 3G phones sourced from top European, U.S. and Asian manufacturers, with five of them at entry level prices.

Vodafone will sell six HSDPA (high speed downlink packet access) phones devices that allow Internet download at speeds several times current 3G phones made by Motorola and Samsung Electronics .

These phones will allow faster access to multimedia services such as mobile TV and full track music downloads faster download of music and video files and high-speed download of emails when the handset is used as a modem.

HSDPA, could help mobile operators offer speeds of 1.8 megabits per second (mbps) to start with, rising to as much as 14 mbps soon, bringing broadband speeds to mobile devices. Existing 3G networks at best offer Internet speeds of around 384 kilobits per second.

Vodafone said its handset range this Christmas would include 24 Vodafone live with 3G handsets, all offering mobile TV services. Fourteen phones will offer its Radio DJ service that allows customers to access music in tune with tastes.