Mobile vendor strategies - 28/08/07

Matsushita would pay up to $172m on a battery replacement program for Nokia handset owners.

Palm is planning to launch its first Linux-based smartphone in October.

Nokia installs Microsoft Internet Windows Live tools on mobile phones, and will make India plant global hub for exports. India is now ts second-largest cell phone market.

ZTE has now shipped over 55,000 CDMA base stations (more than 20K in India) and 12K only in 1H07. Accordingly, its CDMA system subscriber capacity has exceeded 100m lines, while its GSM subscriber capacity was 90m lines at the end of June.

Datang (China) will sell a 15% stake to PICC Asset Management.

Samsung predicts its handset sales to surpass 40m in 3Q07, and targets 150m in 2007.