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Mobile vendor strategies - 10/07/05
Motorola and Samsung have signed a cross-licensing contract in the mobile telephony. Compal ( Taiwan ) has received orders from Motorola to manufacture 3G handsets on an OEM basis. Motorola is launching JUIX, a new mobile Java and Linux-based operating...
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Mobile vendor strategies - 2/7/05
Curitel (Korea) will buy a controlling stake in SK Telecom s handset unit SK Teletech. Motorola will introduce a new EDGE Linux-based handset, the E895. Availability in 4Q05. It said it will use Bitfone MVP 2.0, a server solution that manages firmware...
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Mobile vendor strategies - 01/09/07
LG targets to ship 78m handsets in 2007 and increase mobile phone margin to 5% (from just over 1% last year). It sees its Indian CDMA handset sales falling due to intense competition from low-cost Chinese vendors. ZTE and mobile chipset provider Spreadtrum...
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Mobile vendor strategies - 18/08/07
Sanyo (Japan) may sell its loss-making handset division, and could be in talks with mobile phone makers Sharp and Kyocera. The Sanyo phone business is too small with about only 1% market share. Shortfall: Nokia warns on overheating BL-5C batteries (made...
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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...
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Mobile vendor strategies - 16/07/07
RIM will introduce a 8820 Blackberry handset equipped with WiFi functionality. Neo 1973 is a GSM phone equipped with Linux OS (OpenMoko), with GPS and microSD memory card. Sold on the web site of Open Source OpenMoko. Motorola' s minority shareholders...
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Mobile vendor strategies - 08/07/07
RIM has been finally allowed by the MII to sell its BlackBerry handsets in China. LG will pre-install YouTube on its new mobile phones. Nokia licenses a tactile feedback system for mobile devices developed by Immersion. It plans to boost its presence...
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Mobile vendor strategies - 04/07/07
Nokia has launched a mobile printing service in Europe. Customers can now order prints directly from their mobile phone and have them delivered by mail. Motorola, Softbank and Ubiquisys are demonstrating 3G femtocell technology for the Japanese market....
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Mobile vendor strategies - 15/06/07
LG has launched its KU-250 model, which was selected by GSM A for its "3G for All" program. Hi-Tech Wealth (China) has designed and developed the world-first solar-powered mobile phone with 40mn calling time after 60mn loading. Motorola announced additions...
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Mobile vendor strategies - 06/06/07
18 companies to bid for China Mobile’s 3G handset tender in October 2007. Motorola introduces the 3G MOTORAZR maxx V3 i-mode handset in Hong Kong. Samsung has been selected to receive the WiMAX World Europe 2007 Award for its base station. HTC (Taiwan)...
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Mobile vendor strategies - 23/05/07
Agilent and Teradata have reached a deal to combine their respective OSS and front- and backoffice information (billing, CRM or provisioning) expertise. Their combined offering is called assureME Intelligence. Change in mobile phone vendors in Taiwan:...
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Mobile vendor strategies - 20/05/07
Symbian is still leading the smartphone OS market with almost 16m Symbian units shipped in the quarter. Symbian has already sold 126m devices. Greener and greener: Motorola is testing a wind and solar power system to operate base stations. BenQ is selling...
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Mobile vendor strategies - 12/05/07
Motorola is rumored launching next week a new wave of mobile handsets with advanced video capabilities. Will it overcome the current lack of 3G-enabled handsets in its portfolio? Nokia has launched a new feature: energy saving alert. When the battery...
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Mobile vendor strategies - 09/05/07
Lenovo will use Qualcomm' s 3G W-CDMA licence and technology for its products. Nokia is planning to ramp up the capacity of its Chennai factory in India. Sony Ericsson announced a new generation (5th) of P-series smartphone, the P1, based on Symbian OS....
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Mobile vendor strategies - 05/05/07
Nokia announced 7 new entry-level phones for international and emerging markets. It claims more than 60% market share in India. RIM launches a new consumer-focused BlackBerry device, called 'Curve', which includes popular Pearl model as well as a full...
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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...
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Mobile vendor strategies - 19/03/06
Nokia launched in the US the Nokia Flexi Base Station, a multi-radio platform, featuring WCDMA, HSDPA, WiMAX in multiple spectrum bands. It also is trialling an integrated dual phone telephony solution (cellular/ WLAN) with DT in Germany. Nokia signed...
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Mobile vendor strategies - 02/03/2006
Qualcomm is developing chipsets based on Digital Video Broadcasting–Handheld, or DVB-H, a rival standard of its own MediaFlo network, for which it is also supplying MediaFlo chips to handset vendors. It is quite in line with its traditional strategy to...
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Mobile vendor strategies - 11/02/06
Ningbo Bird is the largest exporter of mobile phones in China, with exporting some 6m units in 2005. Motorola launches its M-Wallet virtual mobile wallet. M-Wallet works with all mobile standards and supports Symbian, PocketPC, Palm, J2ME, BREW and SimTk...
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Mobile vendor strategies - 9/02/06
Celtel (a Kuwait' s MTC subsidiary) has opened a Technical Center in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The infrastructure will serve as a technical hub for five countries. Sony Ericsson is introducing its new M600i smartphone to compete with RIM' s Blackberry...
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Mobile vendor strategies - 4/02/06
Motorola, Fujitsu and NEC have co-developed with DoCoMo new HSDPA prototype phones. Kyocera announced plans to build dual-mode CDMA/ Wi-Fi handsets using chips from Marvell Technology, as well as its KR1 Mobile Router creating a mobile Wi-Fi hot spot...
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Mobile vendor strategies - 1/2/06
Microsoft has launched the idea of a Phone PC, to fight against the digital divide and probably also to oppose the $100 PC launched by MIT end of 2005, equipped with Open Source software. Nokia will stay out of low-cost handset initiatives. Its increased...
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Mobile vendor strategies - 25/1/06
Ericsson has signed a pan-European mobile music agreement with EMI to feed its Personalized Music Portal with more than 200k full-track downloads and 12k ring tones. Nokia says that it is adding support for Lotus Notes and Domino to its push email platform....
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Mobile vendor strategies - 14/1/06
Hewlett Packard (and Verizon) has launched its Evolution Data Optimized (EV-DO) Mobile Broadband Notebook PC, the HP nc6140. Fujitsu-Siemens ( and T-Mobile) is launching notebooks with integrated HSDPA, UMTS and W-LAN mobile communications technologies....
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Mobile vendor strategies - 12/01/06
Nokia has signed a long-term purchase agreement expansion with Endwave. Endwave provides radio frequency subsystems that enable the transmission and reception of data signals in broadband wireless systems. Samsung expands its distribution agreement with...