Finally, LTE has arrived in Europe – in Düsseldorf to be specific! At the moment, Vodafone and its partners HTC and Qualcomm are holding a press conference and they've just announced Europe's first LTE device: the Velocity HTC 4G. It will be available starting on the first of March, 2012 exclusively from Vodafone.
With LTE finally available, high-speed Internet is expected to arrive in Germany in late 2012. It should reach about 16m million households and should cover 90% of Germany, This means that folks should be able to surf at 50 Mbit / s – a huge leap from UMTS (384 kbit /s) and HSDPA (7.2Mbit / s).
The HTC Velocity will have the following technical specs:
- Qualcomm APQ 8060, 1.5 GHz
- Android 2.3.7
- 16 GB ROM
- 1 GB DDR2 RAM
- 129 x 67 x 11.27 inches
- 163 grams
- 4.5'' touch screen with 540 x 960 pixels
- 8 MP main camera with autofocus, dual LED flash
- 1.3MP front camera
- 1620 mAh battery
And, perhaps most impressively, the phone will be receiving an ICS upgrade around March / April.
We will be posting a hands-on video with the device shortly. So far we've been very impressed by its LTE speeds!
Eric McBride
Funny...I was just asking Yan yesterday when we would finally see some 4G love in Europe. Nice to see its on its way.