14 DAY TRIAL // Yesterday, mobile phone maker HTC Corporation announced the release of two new Android-based devices on the market in South Korea, namely the HTC Flyer 4G and EVO 4G+, both of which feature support for wireless carrier's KT 4G network.
The company is offering 4G services in the country via the Wireless Broadband, or WiBro, the Korean flavor of WiMAX, and the two new devices come with this technology packed inside.
Apparently, the technology can deliver impressive speeds to all users, at 40 Mbps while on the go, far more than what 3G networks have to offer today.
Both the HTC EVO 4G+, which was detailed yesterday, as well as the Flyer 4G tablet PC will arrive on the market in South Korean as soon as July 1st.
“Korea is ahead of any other country when it comes to WiBro technology,” Jack Tong, president of HTC North Asia, stated during a meeting with the media in downtown Seoul, Thursday, KoreaTimes reports.
“Our products, along with the WiBro 4G network of KT, will completely change the way people communicate,” Tong added.
The WiBro network offers connectivity to people in a number of no less than 82 cities in the country, but no 4G handsets were available until now, it seems.
“It marks a new chapter in Korean IT services. Now, the convenient and economical 4G service is available with the smartphone,” said Pyo Hyun-myung, president of KT’s mobile business unit.
The two new Android devices will also come to the market with support for KT’s 3W services of WCDMA, as well as with Wi-Fi connectivity packed inside.
EVO 4G+ arrives on shelves with a large 4.3-inch touchscreen display, an 8 megapixel camera on the back, and a 1.2 GHz dual core application processor inside.
The Flyer 4G will come to South Korea with the HTC Scribe technology inside, just as it did in other markets around the world, running under Google's Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system.