Mobile vendor strategies - 13/10/06

Samsung has launched a 10-megapixel mobile phone, the SCH-B600.

Philips is going out of the mobile handset business by year end. It will transfer assets to China Electronics Corp. The unit had a turnover of $500m and about 240 people.

Huawei plans to build a mobile phone factory in Venezuela with state-owned CVG Telecom.