Lenovo, Spreadtrum readies TD-SCDMA handsets for Olympics

Volunteers and staff members of the upcoming Beijing Olympics will be receiving Lenovo Mobile's TD900, the latest digital mobile TV-equipped TD-SCDMA handsets. Lenovo Mobile, together with Spreadtrum Communications Inc. (Spreadtrum) presented last week the handsets to China Mobile. The TD900's design is based on Spreadtrum's TD-SCDMA platform and mobile TV solution.

Lenovo Mobile's TD900 is one of the company's "new vision" model series released in July. The TD900 is a tablet phone that supports TD-SCDMA/GSM dual mode and 3G applications such as videophone, mobile TV, auto-roaming, auto-switching and high-speed download. As the first batch of mobile TV-equipped TD handsets, several radio programs and approximately eight TV channels including CCTV1, CCTV Olympics and CCTV News, will be provided free.