Mobile vendor strategies - 09/03/08

Nokia plans to embed Microsoft’ s Silverlight technology on its handsets.

Mitsubishi will go out the mobile phone market.

Ningbo Bird (China) will sell its 50% stake in its handset joint venture with Sagem Mobile to Safran (France) for about €15m.

ALU announced plans to support high-speed downlink packet access (HSDPA)-based 3G networks on its OmniAccess 3500 Nonstop Laptop Guardian, as well as a new distributed base station product, the fanless 60-watt remote radio head (RRH) node B.

Sony Ericsson introduced its new basic slider phone - the T303.

Garmin launched in Italy the Nuvi 900T, a personal navigation device with mobile TV (provided by 3 Italia).