Vodafone - Germany plans to launch two LTE-enabled smartphone before the end this year, the new Samsung Celox and HTC Thunderbolt. Both are likely to be the first LTE 4G-capable smartphone in the European market. Samsung Celox is not a stranger name in our ears, where this is the previously mentioned as a LTE 4G version of the Samsung Galaxy S II for the European market. At IFA 2011 revealed that the smartphone will be launched by Vodafone in November 2011. However there has been no official price announced. Samsung Celox Vodafone version uses the carriers name of Samsung GT-i9210.
Samsung Celox brings superior specifications and hardware in the smartphone class. a 4.5-inch display using Super AMOLED Plus technology is capable of displaying images in a resolution of 800x480 pixels. Rear camera with 8 MP resolution capable of recording video in HD quality for up to 1080p, and the front camera with a resolution of 2 Megapixels has been provided for the better video chat experience, and this seems the biggest front facing camera to for now. Samsung Celox equipped with dual-core 1.5GHz processor and 1 GB of RAM, also powered by the latest version of Android 2.3.5. This LTE 4G phone also works on GSM and UMTS bands, in addition to LTE frequency 800MHz.
Meanwhile, the HTC Thunderbolt is the same device we find on the Verizon, including a 1 GHz single-core processor Qualcomm ® MSM8655, 768MB of RAM, 4.3-inch display, rear camera 8 MP 720p HD video recording, 8 GB of internal memory. It's just that LTE frequency adjusted to those used in Europe and possibly also works on GSM, UMTS networks at quadband frequency. Verizon version of the HTC Thunderbolt runs the LTE 700Mhz spectrum and works also with CDMA 1x and 3G EVDO Rev.a radios.
