Mobile vendor strategies - 01/10/06

Carphone Warehouse (UK) will team with Best Buy Mobile (US) to open stand-alone cell phone stores in the United States.

Sanbridge has developed a single chip (SB3011) with a complete built-in 3G mobile handset, virtually operating with any radio protocol.

BenQ Mobile is in trouble. Its parent company has cut the financial cord and the unit, which bought Siemens' mobile phone unit last year, is close to bankruptcy.