Mobile vendor strategies - 28/03/07

Sony Ericsson will outsource low-cost GSM handset development and manufacturing to Sagem (France) under an OEM agreement.

Nokia is building a mobile phone factory in Romania for handsets to be sold in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Qualcomm announced a new product supporting CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Revision B. Tha MSM7850 chipset supports data rates of 9.3Mbit/s downlink.

Ericsson will license its U310 mobile platform (a triple-band WCDMA mobile platform) to Compal Communications, a Taiwanese original design manufacturer (ODM) in the wireless and communication industry.

Huawei is partnering with Israeli Radvision to enhance its 3G products and solutions offerings. It is also partnering with US-based Optimi to optimize the radio access portion of Vodafone Spain’ s 3G network.

Samsung is introducing a small CDMA plug-and-play base station for home coverage (femtocell).

UTStarcom introduces GSM capability to its MovingMedia 2000 end-to-end all-IP wireless network platform.

Eudyna, Mitsubishi, NEC, Oki Electric, Opnext and Sumitomo Electric have announced the formation of a Multi-Source Agreement (MSA) for 40 Gbit/s optical devices. A good news for the 40 Gbit/s industry.

Motorola has introduced the MC35, a « Swiss Knife » device with mobile phone, PDA , 2M pixel- camera, bar-code reader, and GPS.

ALU unveils a new intelligent antenna (IA) solution for CDMA 2000 1x networks, offering a two-fold increase in voice capacity and data throughput.