Mobile vendor strategies - 14/1/06

Hewlett Packard (and Verizon) has launched its Evolution Data Optimized (EV-DO) Mobile Broadband Notebook PC, the HP nc6140.

Fujitsu-Siemens ( and T-Mobile) is launching notebooks with integrated HSDPA, UMTS and W-LAN mobile communications technologies.

Samsung plans to invest $15m to set up a mobile handset manufacturing facility in India.

Nokia will resell Ceragon (Israel) FibeAir family of microwave radios under the Nokia brand name PowerHopper Vario.

RIM will add Google Talk instant-messaging and Google Local mapping programs support to Blackberry phones.

Aperto Networks has announced the availability of a Time Domain Multiplexed (TDM) wireless backhaul for cellular networks.

Access (Japan) will provide Chinese handset maker Hisense with browsing and messaging technology for TD-SCDMA handsets.

Microsoft will launch car navigation system with Fiat by end 2006