Phone Scoop brings news that EV-DV chips are slowly inching down the pipeline:
STMicroelectronics (ST) and Texas Instruments (TI) today announced the delivery of sample CDMA 1xEV-DV chipsets to device manufacturers. In collaboration with Nokia, Korean carrier LG Telecom is testing the solution for its planned deployment of 1xEV-DV technology.
We should start seeing EV-DV tech hitting sometime during 2005, with a more widespread rollout 2006ish. This seems to be in line with what I learned about EV-DV at ETech. That’s the “slow” Rev C though. It can only pull down about 3 megabits. The uplink isn’t that fast, but the downlink is what you’re really worried about anyway. The uplink speed will be fixed when Rev D comes out.
EV-DV is definitely a tech to keep an eye out for, and might hit some top 10 lists in 2005 or 2006.