Sunday, August 1, 2010

FCC approves Samsung’s SCH-R900 LTE phone



With the Federal Communications Commission having given its approval to a forthcoming Samsung R900 handset, the South Korean electronics bigwig Samsung becomes the first company to boast federal regulations on approved 4G LTE handsets.

Sprint is the only major US carrier already using 4G, but is doing so in the Wimax flavor, whereas rival Verizon plans to be the first major N. American carrier to launch LTE 4G services nationwide.

The SCH-R900 offers Bluetooth, and 802.11 b/g WiFi, but other than that, we don’t know much about the device. The device supports 850 and 1900 CDMA/EVDO frequencies, as well as MetroPCS’s 1700 AWS frequency.