Mobile vendor strategies

Siemens is in talks for its mobile unit. It is not a surprise, but the German press reported contenders should be Motorola, Acer and Nortel. In fact Siemens should be talking with Nortel of a more general deal (alliance, buy a stake, ???). With Siemens cutting its European market share to 8% from 15%, and Motorola gaining market share from 10% to 14% in Europe, is a deal with Motorola making sense? Acer denied being interested. Finally, Siemens announced it will spin-off its ailing mobile-phone operations.

Motorola opened a new 3G development center in Beijing, China. In another announcement, it unveiled that it will supply low-end ($40) handsets in China this year.

Nokia targets to ship 100m camera phone this year, as well as 25m smartphones and 40m devices with MP3 music players.

ZTE announced record sales of 60m lines (20m CDMA and 40m GSM) of its mobile products, 40m lines of its PHS systems and 20m mobile phones. ZTE has signed a global QPoint license (location positioning systems) and distribution agreement with Qualcomm.

Orange Romania and RIM will introduce the BlackBerry wireless platform in the country.

Samsung has signed an agreement with Kodiak to jointly develop mobile handsets based on Kodiak's mobile system technology.