Mobile vendor strategies - 02/06/06

NEC and Matsushita decided to explore ways to cooperate in their mobile handset business. In fact, it seems a third partner is involved in the talks. Texas Instrument is believed to participate in the mobile handset venture. NEC handset shipment dropped to 11m units in its fiscal year ended in March (from 13m units last year).

ZTE has ordered real-time operating system, or OSE, from Enea AB, to be used in its 3G WCDMA mobile phone chip set,

Qualcomm opens an African 3G Center in Johannesburg, .