Mobile vendor strategies - 21/04/07

Nokia launches HSDPA handset 6120.

Shortfall: RIM' s Blackberry e-mail service experienced a serious system failure in N.A. for several hours. The nature of the breakdown is a poor testing of a software upgrade that was supposed to optimize system cache memory.

China currently has 82 mobile phone manufacturers!!! The three first players are Ningbo Bird (almost 14m units in 2006), Huawei (12m units in 2006, of which 8m CDMA), and ZTE (12m units in 2006).