Ethertronics, a provider of antenna and RF solutions, announced that its EtherSmart LTE 1.0 Phone Adaptive Antenna Solution has been selected for Samsung's Galaxy S II LTE SC-03D smartphone for NTT DOCOMO subscribers in Japan.
The use of Ethertronics' EtherSmart LTE 1.0 assists Samsung to have 50 percent reduction in the antenna's physical volume for Galaxy S II LTE SC-03D. Thus the EtherSmart LTE 1.0 Phone Adaptive Antenna solution supports the thin form factor attribute of the Samsung smartphone.
The EtherSmart LTE 1.0 utilizes Active Impedance Matching techniques, which dynamically tune the antenna system, to maintain consistently high performance by minimizing body effects, company officials said.
“EtherSmart LTE 1.0 enables device vendors such as Samsung to meet the rapidly growing demand for sleek, compact LTE smartphones and tablets while ensuring that those devices can deliver the multi-megabit speeds that consumers and business users expect from LTE,” said Laurent Desclos, president and CEO at Ethertronics, in a statement.
“We're honored that Samsung continues to turn to Ethertronics for advanced and innovative antenna systems that help their devices stand out in the marketplace,” Desclos added.
Ethertronics provides antenna systems for a variety of Samsung products, including the Galaxy S family of tablets and smartphones.
Ethertronics' technology has been selected by major customers with worldwide annual shipments well over 100 million annually. Ethertronics maintains a global network of design centers and manufacturing operations.
Recently, T-Mobile USA started selling Samsung's new Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus tablet in stores nationwide. Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus is powered by Google Android 3.2 operating system.
It weighs 0.77 pounds, runs on a 1.2 GHz dual-core processor and offers a USB 2.0 port with a choice of 16 GB or 32 GB memory for storage, and a front-facing 2-megapixel (MP) camera and a back-facing 3 MP camera.
Rajani Baburajan is a contributing editor for MobilityTechzone. To read more of Rajani's articles, please visit her columnist page.Edited by
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