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Mobile vendor strategies - 7/1/07
Sony Ericsson has announced a new Quad-band EDGE Walkman-branded mobile music phone. Motorola will integrate Google icon in its handsets to access Google directly anytime, anywhere at the click of a button. Warner Music and Universal Music will be the...
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Mobile vendor strategies - 05/04/07
UTStarcom and Globecomm have demonstrated an enterprise mobile network through a hosted satellite solution. Nokia has joined the Linux Foundation and will help accelerating the growth of Linux. It announced that it has paid Qualcomm $20m for patent licenses...
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Mobile vendor strategies - 01/04/07
LG will offer Google search engine on its mobile phones. Huawei announced its newest 65-nm CDMA 1xEV-DO data card, the EC360. ZTE has introduced the world's first HSDPA handset with push-to- talk functionality, the F159. Haier and Alcatel Mobile Phone...
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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...
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Mobile vendor strategies - 25/03/07
UDcast (France) has introduced statistical multiplexing to optimize DVB-H Mobile-TV transmission. Stat mux allows to gain between 30% and 40% efficiency on a given transmission channel, and allows to send more video services with the same quality or to...
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Mobile vendor strategies - 17/03/07
ZTE (the first) and most other equipment suppliers (Datang, Potevio, Huawei, TD Tech, Nokia and Ericsson) have passed network access tests for their TD-SCDMA equipment in China. Ericsson is pushing EDGE Evolution to be a sotware upgrade of existing infrastructure,...
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Global operator strategies - 24/02/07
AT&T won a huge $1bn managed services deal with GM worldwide. Is Alltel (US) for sale? The company is reviewing strategic options. Joost, the peer-to-peer video distribution platform, has signed its first shows and movies licensing deal with Viacom. Orascom...
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Mobile vendor strategies - 07/02/07
Texas Instruments has announced its own tri-wireless chip that integrates 802.11n, Bluetooth and FM. Ericsson has signed a licensing agreement with LG Electronics to provide its advanced mobile platform U360. Sony Ericsson has announced four new 'candy...
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Mobile vendor strategies - 03/02/07
Motorola plans to launch 3G mobile phones based on TI customized chips. TI could sell as much as $25 worth of chips per handset. TI would also supply Motorola with WiMAX chips for its future handsets available in 2008. Nokia has signed an agreement with...
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Mobile vendor strategies - 18/01/07
Safran/ Sagem (France) will change its strategy. Mobile phones unit is no more for sale. Sagem delivered more than 17m units in 2006 (-1% in volume and -12% in value). Sagem will focus on quality and not volume. Nokia is providing its Intellisync Wireless...
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Mobile vendor strategies - 03/01/07
Funny: KDDI is developing a combined “breathalyzer” and telephone that will let bus and taxi companies know if their drivers can take the wheel. The handset, called Alc-Mobile, transmits drivers' faces and details on their location using GPS. Alcatel-Lucent...
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Mobile vendor strategies - 28/12/06
Samsung has launched the new SGH-Z720 handset, an HSDPA slider phone. Linksys announced its iPhone family of Voice over IP solutions. So Linksys/ Cisco owns the iPhone trademark and not Apple as expected for a while. NEC has started delivery of a new...
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Mobile vendor strategies - 16/12/06
Ericsson has signed an agreement with STMicroelectronics on the provision of 3G digital baseband processors to Ericsson Mobile Platforms 3G mobile-phone technology' s licensees, and on the development of these digital baseband ASICs. Once again, an Indian...
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Mobile vendor strategies - 02/12/06
Alcatel has demonstrated first mobile TV broadcast in S band, using the future DVB-SH standard (Digital Video Broadcast from Satellite for Handhelds), currently being drafted by the DVB Project. High quality images were displayed using two antennas inside...
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Mobile vendor strategies - 29/11/06
Nokia has unveiled a platform that allows operators to block peer-to-peer file sharing, VoIP, or any other data service. It is a software upgrade to the Nokia Flexi Intelligent Service Node (ISN). NEC has decided to withdraw from the Chinese mobile phone...
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Mobile vendor strategies - 25/11/06
ZTE will debut TD-SCDMA base stations, while Datang will test TD-SCDMA in Hong Kong Motorola is increasing its TETRA portfolio, adding MTC100 TETRA PDA (a rugged data device), and a new Dimetra IP Compact, a highly scalable switch for TETRA private network...
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Mobile vendor strategies - 22/11/06
Amid of BSNL/Motorola hearing in India being delayed until end November, Ericsson calls for a quick decision on BSNL tender. Sony, NXP Semiconductors announced a joint venture to develop a secure chip that uses near-field communications (NFC) for financial...
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Mobile vendor strategies - 18/11/06
HP and Flextronics announce 5-year deal to improve quality of images in cell camera phones. Ericsson has introduced a new product, the Home 3G Access Point, providing local indoor coverage in households and SME offices, and supporting HSPA speeds. Lucent...
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Mobile vendor strategies - 19/10/06
Samsung has shipped 30.7m (+17%) mobile phones in 3Q06; Sony Ericsson 20m units; LG 16.5m units for revenues of $2.2bn. BenQ has decided to close operations in Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay. It could manufacture white-label phones for large and well-known...
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Mobile vendor strategies - 13/10/06
Samsung has launched a 10-megapixel mobile phone, the SCH-B600. Philips is going out of the mobile handset business by year end. It will transfer assets to China Electronics Corp. The unit had a turnover of $500m and about 240 people. Huawei plans to...
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Mobile vendor strategies - 05/10/06
Nokia will integrate Trimble’s patented Global Navigation Satellite System technology in its handsets. It will also launched a new wireless, short-range connectivity technology that should compete/replace with Bluetooth. Its main advantage is a low power...
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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....
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Mobile vendor strategies - 14/12/05
Samsung invested in WiMAX chipmaker Beceem Communications during C round financing. IPWireless teamed with Netgear to develop a UMTS TD-CDMA mobile broadband router, featuring WLAN 802.11g, mobile broadband access with UMTS TD-CDMA, firewall security...
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Mobile vendor strategies - 10/12/05
Chip makers see plunging cellphone prices in 2007, to $20 in retail price and $ 10 in production. Without lowering product quality, new chips could integrate fewer features in a $5 single chip. Ericsson has added new capabilities to its Mini-Link TN microwave...
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Mobile vendor strategies - 7/12/05
ITI (India) plans to increase its GSM production capacity from 3m units to 6m units in 2006 and 2007. ZTE is in talks with India's BSNL to set up mobile handset JV. It signed long-term R&D pact with France Telecom, starting with developing 3G smartphones...