Mobile vendor strategies - 21/09/07

NSN is working with Airvana on femtocells. A joint solution is expected by the end of 2007.

Samsung plans to launch touch-screen cell phone, F700, in Europe in Nov.

Ericsson has launched its U335 WCDMA mobile platform for mass market HSPA devices.

Cubic Telecom (a start-up in Ireland) is the first to offer a dual band GSM/Wi-Fi handset with a special SIM card, called MAXroam, that transforms any call into cheap local call.