Devices & Platforms

SwissQual, the independent Swiss network quality measurement company, has announced the release of patented new technologies that allow the most modern handsets to be used for unattended network field testing...

Spice Corporation, an Indian telecoms company, launched several products at the Mobile World Congress 2008. In particular, it claims to be marketing what it calls "The Peoples' Phone - probably the world's cheapest phone at under US$20 to the consumer"...

Claiming that it will play a real part in bridging the Digital Divide, an alliance of hardware and software vendors took the opportunity of the Mobile World Congress to announce that they had joined up to develop the world's lowest-cost smart entry phone that can enable email and web-based messaging functions...

Nokia has unveiled a premium pair of handsets aimed at the most discerning and style-conscious consumers. The company's accompanying press release, in common with one or two other Nokia announcements we have published, has attracted our attention. So here goes...

Some months ago we carried a press release from Nokia which extolled the virtues of a Nokia handset whose design was said to be inspired by Alice in Wonderland. The press release was so brilliant we carried it unedited. Now, Nokia has released its Nokia 8600 Luna, 'a definitive design statement with a touch of glass.' We thought those of you dealing with telecoms in rural wastelands, or building up tele-density in urban squalor, or installing disaster management systems might just be interested in what Nokia has to say. Take it away, Nokia Luna...

Vodafone has unveiled its first branded ultra-low cost consumer handsets, the Vodafone 125 and Vodafone 225, aimed at providing millions of people in emerging and developing markets the opportunity to access to the benefits of mobile technology for the very first time...

It may be wishful thinking now but a US$10 cell phone is definitely in the minds of researchers at Berkeley 's Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS).

Industry has long played a part in the economics of the Cluj county of Romania. It is perhaps unsurprising that Nokia has chosen Cluj to be the site of a brand-new US$80 million factory for mobile devices. We report on Nokia's highly ambitious scheme.

WiMAX,Wireless Broadband, Global: Samsung Electronics Co has unveiled a three-way gadget that combines a phone, personal computer and music player...  

Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications Company has officially released its second-generation handheld phones, believed by the company to be the lightest and smallest in the industry.

Nokia is unveiling three new mobile phones for the fashion-conscious, including what it believes to be the first 3G fashion phone. While we would never dream of publishing a press release without giving serious thought to moderating "purple prose" we feel that the write-up for the trio is so aesthetic and wallows in such a sensuous style that we have let this one through!

Sony Ericsson has announced a new phone in the Middle East  - the K510i...

Nokia is set to strengthen its R&D in China by expanding its Chengdu R&D centre...

Nokia is now the first equipment vendor to manufacture both mobile devices and network infrastructure equipment in India . It has also achieved the milestone of manufacturing over one million handsets in India , the market set to become the second biggest mobile device market in the world in terms of volumes by 2010...

Nokia has now opened the extension to its Reynosa , Tamaulipas plant in Mexico , which is intended to boost its mobile-device production...

Nokia intends to strengthen its multidisciplinary design unit by forming a single company-wide design organisation...

Mobile operators in developing countries have bought or ordered more than 12 million mobile phones from Motorola under the Emerging Market Handset programme run by the GSM Association (GSMA).

 

Nokia has announced three new Bluetooth headsets: the BH-800, the BH-900 and the BH-200 at the Consumer Electronics Fair, Las Vegas...

Sony Ericsson's J210 phone is a straightforward device for people whose primary communication style is voice and basic messaging and who have no need for a fully-featured mobile phone...

 

Nokia is set to expand its mobile device production in Dongguan, China . The expansion will provide more capacity and flexibility to meet growing market demand worldwide, especially in China and the rest of Asia...

Nokia has introduced a pair of CDMA handsets designed expressly for the world's fastest-growing regions...

Set to start shipping during Q1 2006, Sony Ericsson's 3G UMTS P990 smartphone is billed as the first commercially available smartphone to adopt the enhanced Symbian OS version 9.1 and UIQ 3 software platform...

Cisco's Linksys division is working with Skype, one of the leading global voice over Internet communications companies, to market a new cordless phone that is designed to take free Skype Internet phone calling off the computer and to put it into the hands of callers...

Nokia is expanding its range of mobiles designed for new growth markets...

Earlier this summer, Nokia sold its one billionth phone. The customer is based in Nigeria and Nokia is quick to acknowledge the significance of this event...