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Super Breaking! MT6590 MT6595 4G LTE To Be Released In January!

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mediatek-mt6290 It’s been announced by Taiwan Commercial Times that MediaTek will officially begin shipping MT6595 in January 2014. From the sounds of things, the previously named MT6290 4G RF baseband chip will now be called MT6590.

The MTK6595 SoC will actually be MT6590 4G/LTE chip combined with MT6592 SoC. As already discussed, MT6590 will support multiple bands.

Part of the speed up in plans is due to just last week China Mobile / Unicom and Telecom being awarded TD-LTE and FDD-LTE licensing. Qualcomm has had their 4G/LTE chips ready for quite awhile now, so if MTK doesn’t quicken the pace, it wouldn’t be too far fetched to see Qualcomm phones become much more popular with Chinese consumers.

MediaTek needs to rapidly step up their game if they want to have phones with their technology purchased by the Chinese.

Details regarding exactly which frequencies and standards the MT6590 will commonly support is unclear. We do know they will be customizable depending on the manufacturer’s needs, but the range of customization is still not known.

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8 responses to “Super Breaking! MT6590 MT6595 4G LTE To Be Released In January!”

  1. highwind Avatar
    highwind

    Could you give an endjucated guess on how fast manufacturers will adopt the new chip in their current MT6590 phones?
    I was really looking forward to the THL T100 and it is a funny coincidence that I read about the earlier release of Mediatek LTE chips just on the same day as the phone goes on sale :)

    Now I am really undecided if I should wait or not…

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    1. Damian Parsons Avatar
      Damian Parsons

      A rough guess would be 2 months from now before we start seeing these. It would be difficult to imagine them coming out before then. We also don’t know if the manufacturer’s will make them compatible with international LTE frequencies. The LTE frequency wars are a complete mess. If it were me, I wouldn’t wait. The THL T100 looks awesome other than at this point it appears to not have quad-band GSM, but we’re still investigating that.

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  2. highwind Avatar
    highwind

    Thanks for your reply

    About two month would have been my estimate aswell…

    they will support FDD-LTE and TD-LTE which is all I need (as I live in Germany and dont need 850/1900MHz GSM either for the same reason).
    I currently own a Sony Xperia S which is far from the need to be replaced desperately so its a really tough decision.

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    1. Damian Parsons Avatar
      Damian Parsons

      I’ve posted several times regarding the modes MT6590 will support. It’s not just FDD-LTE or TD-LTE, it needs to support the same bands as well. Same as 850GSM won’t work in Germany, or 1800GSM in USA. Luckily Germany has some similar bands as China (bands 3 and 7), so you should see some China phone LTE support for Germany. Let us know what you end up deciding.

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      1. highwind Avatar
        highwind

        You are right and I read your articles about LTE bands and international support with passion… I just used the wrong wording :)

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        1. Damian Parsons Avatar
          Damian Parsons

          Okay, just wanted to make sure you understand. Actually I thought you were a native speaker until I saw the .de :)

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  3. VAYOTRULZ Avatar
    VAYOTRULZ

    Hmmm…So they had finally put the $G-LTE thing on that 8-Core Processor…That Great!
    but i still pass! i need to wait for something even better…something like…

    64-bit / 20nm

    Just Asking….

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    1. Damian Parsons Avatar
      Damian Parsons

      Yes. MT6595 hasn’t been released yet. But should be coming out within the next few months. They say ‘January’, but you know you’ve got to add a couple months until the products really become available for sale. The problem with waiting, is there’s always something better 6 months around the corner. It also would depend on what phone you have now.

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