Japan’s leading mobile operator by subscribers NTT DoCoMo is teaming up with Renesas Technology, Fujitsu and Sharp Corporation to jointly develop the SH-Mobile G4 single-chip LSI device, and a platform incorporating it, to support the HSUPA1/HSDPA2/W-CDMA and GSM/GPRS/EDGE mobile telephony standards. In a joint press release the four companies say the development work on the platform is scheduled for completion by January–March 2010. It is claimed the new SH-Mobile G4 will provide enhanced functionality and improved performance for applications handling HD3 video and 3-D graphics. In addition it will support HSUPA to boost uplink speeds to a maximum of 5.7Mbps.

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