Mobile vendor strategies - 27/01/08

Sanyo will sell its ailing mobile handset division to Kyocera for $375m.

Huawei said it will offer a new solution, called 'Green Sites Solution', capable of slashing base station power consumption by 60%.

Strong reaction in Germany (from authorities and consumers) and in Finland (activist Attack network) after Nokia decides closing the single mobile phone plant in Germany.

Apple is in talks with AIS (Thailand) and parent company Singtel for launching the iPhone in Thailand.

Nokia unveiled the Nokia 2600 classic and the Nokia 1209, two mobile handsets for consumers in emerging markets.

Motorola will use Qualcomm' s chipsets in 3G mobile phones.

Ubiquisys has shown off new ZoneGate E2 femtocell systems for SMEs that will be released later in 2008.