Mobile vendor strategies N58

Huawei launched a new GT 800 GSM+ Push-to-talk phone.

Ericsson and Siemens made their push-to-talk offer interoperable.

Alcatel will buy 2m mobile lines from ITI (India) for sale outside India. Alcatel has relation with ITI for years. In addition, Alcatel will set-up with C-DOT (India) an R&D center in Chennai.

Nokia has decided to source its CDMA EV-DO phones from SK Teletech, the handset business of SK Telecom, S. Korea. It is big change in Nokia’s handset procurement strategy.

Nokia will increase its mobile phone production in Reynosa in Mexico.

Samsung introduced its SPH-V6500 and SCH-V650 mobile phones that allow users to view document and image files over the mobile phone.

China has approved new handset projects by Huawei, Hisense, Dalian Daxian Pantech, Jiangsu GaoTong and Aux Group, to bring a new 11m annual production capacity.

Toshiba announces a new lithium-ion battery that recharges 60 times faster than current batteries.

ZTE opens factory and R&D center in India for cellular (GSM, CDMA), handsets and wireline (DSL, and NGN) equipment.