MetroPCS plans to release a Android-based LTE smartphone in the first quarter of 2011. Last month MetroPCS launched It’s first Android smartphone LG Optimus M(TM).

MetroPCS plans to release a Android-based LTE smartphone in the first quarter of 2011. Last month MetroPCS launched It’s first Android smartphone LG Optimus M(TM). MetroPCS introduced world’s first commercially available 4G LTE enabled handset, the Samsung Craft(TM) along with it’s LTE rollout in USA and seems to maintain the momentum for now.

According to FierceWireless, company CEO Roger Linquist told investors at the UBS Global Media and Communications Conference that company plans to launch about a half-dozen other LTE smartphones by mid-2011. 

MetroPCS plans to use VoLTE (voice over LTE) technology on its Android smartphones so that the company can quickly migrate customers from its CDMA network to its LTE network.

MetroPCS currently provides 4G LTE services in five major metropolitan cities, including Dallas/Fort Worth, Detroit and Las Vegas. MetroPCS intends to expand its 4G services into additional major metropolitan areas later this year and into early 2011, including Atlanta, Boston, Jacksonville, Miami, New York, Orlando, Sacramento, San Francisco and Tampa.