Spreadtrum Communications, a fabless semiconductor company, and Qingdao Hisense Communication have jointly launched a TD-SCDMA feature phone Hisense N51, in a collaborative technical partnership.
The company expects the launch to accelerate the adoption of the TD-SCDMA platform and enrich TD-SCDMA terminal products and services. Hisense N51 uses Spreadtrum’s integrated SC8800H-baseband, QS3200-RF and SC6600V-CMMB chips to support TD-SCDMA/HSDPA/GSM/GPRS/EDGE and mobile TV functionality. It comes with thickness of 13.3mm, 2.4-inch screen and 2 million pixel (HD) camera.
Hisense N51 supports CMMB digital TV, TD-SCDMA/HSDPA high-speed data services, TD-SCDMA/GSM dual-mode, WWW/WAP browser for internet access and has built-in Fetion, music player, cell phone securities, mobile maps, MMS, DM and PIM.
Wenlin Yang, executive vice president of Hisense Communication, said: “Partnering with Spreadtrum, we successfully won the bid of ‘thousand-yuan 3G mobile phones’ project of China Mobile’s ‘TD-SCDMA Terminal Special Incentive Fund Project’.”
The companies said that its new feature phone has downlink speed of up to 1.6Mbps and uplink speed of up to 384Kbps. For the function of CMMB mobile digital TV, Hisense N51 can receive and send TV broadcasting and communications signals simultaneously without mutual interference.
Leo Li, president and CEO of Spreadtrum Communications, said: “Spreadtrum provides highly integrated TD-SCDMA/HSDPA/GSM/GPRS/EDGE baseband chip SC8800H and RF chip QS3200, which effectively reduce the cost of development and manufacturing of Hisense Communication products.
“Therefore, Hisense Communication is able to introduce cost-effective handsets such as N51 by targeting the Chinese 3G market quickly to meet the needs of consumers. Spreadtrum CMMB mobile TV chip SC6600V provides Hisense N51 with vast application space. Particularly, Hisense N51 is currently the world’s only 1000 RMB level TD-SCDMA phone that supports CMMB.”
