Mobile vendor strategy N57

Nokia and Opera Software signed a new cooperation agreement targeting to include Opera's mobile Internet browser into Nokia mobile phones.

Symbian and Microsoft signed a non-expected agreement. The two competitive mobile OS-makers have signed a license agreement for e-mail synchronization. Symbian will offer Microsoft’s ActiveSync software to its business customers enabling them to read their emails via Microsoft Exchange Server. It is a new step in Symbian’ strategy to offer its customers a wide array of most widespread emailing protocols, such as Blackberry Connect, OMA Data Synch, …The deal follows a similar move from Nokia in February.

Samsung plans to grab 10% of the European mobile handset market, and to launch 20 mobile handset models in Europe this year. It also introduces a new Wi-Fi smart phone, SPH-M4300.

Huawei also targets Europe and more generally in developed countries. It does not hide its strategy to co-operate with international telecom equipment vendors. Large North American partners are primarily targets (Lucent and Nortel).

UTStarcom has sold its clamshell camera phone CDM-8930 handset to Western Wireless, and its SMT 5600 smartphone to Rogers Wireless.

Ericsson and Siemens have completed interoperability push-to-talk tests between Siemens handsets and Ericsson infrastructure.

Ericsson is sueing UK mobile phone vendor for GSM patent infringements.

T-Mobile USA has stopped selling the HP iPAQ h6315 Pocket PC PAD/phone because of unspecified problems.