Mobile vendor strategies - 29/10/07

Nokia updates its MOSH mobile sharing site with SEEK, to be launched on Dec. 13, to allow users to request specific content and respond with suggestions or custom content.

Nokia Video Center will distribute Mywaves videos.

Apple sold 1.4m iPhone up to now, with almost 1.1m units in 3Q07.

Chinese handset manufacturers shipped 480m phones in 2006, representing 47% of global output.

ALU will distribute RIM' s Blackberry in China.

Motorola and Nokia are planning to launch WiMAX based mobile devices in 2008.

ZTE has successfully demonstrated TD-MBMS network services using Spreadtrum' s TD-SCDMA/GSM/GPRS dual-mode chipset solution. It unveiled the world’s first WCDMA commercial Home NodeB femtocell, called ZXWR H8901.

Datang (China) believes TD-SCDMA would integrate with next generation 802.16m WiMAX. So it will begin trials in early 2009.

Huawei and Ericsson have separately demonstrated first live demonstrations of LTE technology in Beijing.