[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]LitePoint®, a leading provider of wireless test solutions, announced today that TCL Communications has achieved breakthrough production volumes using LitePoint technology to test and verify TCL’s new lines of innovative smartphones.

“We are very pleased to work with LitePoint and their leading-edge technology,” said Mr. Lv Well, Senior Vice President and TMC General Manager at TCL Communications. “The ability of LitePoint solutions to deliver speed and high capacity throughput has helped us get our products to market fast, meeting the extremely high demand for TCL smartphones,” Mr. Well added. He said that TCL shipped more than 8 million units of their 2G/3G handsets and 4G LTE-powered devices in November alone.

TCL has deployed the LitePoint IQxstream® for high capacity testing of cellular technologies, and the LitePoint® IQ2010® for connectivity in their smartphones. By testing four devices at the same time, the efficiency of each individual test station was tripled … significantly improving their manufacturing throughput.

“We are extremely pleased to be working with a leading wireless innovator like TCL,” said Brad Robbins, COO at LitePoint. “Our focus is to help our customers bring innovative, next generation smartphones to market quickly and cost effectively. We also congratulate TCL, as Strategy Analytics announced that TCL became the world’s fifth largest handset provider and the top ranked Chinese provider in Q4 of 2013.”