Devices & Platforms

China Mobile has selected ST-Ericsson's company in China, T3G, as a major technology partner for the development of its high-end and low-cost handsets, based on the 3G standard TD-SCDMA. ST-Ericsson will also support four of its customers in order to commercialise their mobile phones during 2009-2010...

Nokia is bringing the Internet in emerging markets "closer to reality" with the announcement of three new mobile phones that open the door to information, entertainment, family and friends...

Rachel Chavula is based on Malawi's Mzuzu University Campus. She specialises in finding roles for the cantenna - a US$2.50 combination of tin-can, antenna and short wire. Singly or in tandem, the roles for this novel piece of equipment are fast expanding...

Nokia has introduced the third of its Near Field Communication devices, the 6216 classic. Using a SIM base for the first time, Nokia is enabling operators to build NFC services via the SIM card. The content services include images, weblinks, audio files, contact data secure payment and ticketing...

Better Energy Systems, which manufactures portable renewable energy products, will be introducing the Solio Mono multi-device solar hybrid charger at Mobile World Congress 2009...

Infineon Technologies has announced its third generation of ultra-low-cost (ULC) mobile phone chips. The X-Gold110 is claimed by Infineon to be a very cost effective one-chip solution for GSM/GPRS ultra-low-cost phones. System costs (bill-of-material) for mobile phone manufacturers are said to be 20 per cent lower compared to existing solutions...

What is claimed to be the world's first GSM/WiMAX handset, the HTC MAX 4G, has been launched in partnership with Russian Mobile WiMAX provider Scartel (brand-name Yota). The handset is intended to support the next evolution in mobile connectivity...

India's Business Standard and Economic Times have both recently investigated claims by Intel that it can help provide India with WiMAX-enabled laptops for under US$400, if not for as little as US$300.

Yes, it's that time of the year when Nokia's resident poets pour out their souls in paeans of praise for the company's latest state-of-the-art mobile device.

The Swedish mobile company Neonode, which develops touch screen technologies and designs mobile handsets, has integrated Chinese XT9 text input interface with phrase prediction in its pioneer multimedia touch screen phone, the Neonode N2...

Leading Chinese vendor Huawei launched an array of new products at the recent Communicasia exhibition in Singapore including its latest HSPA USB stick, 3G phones and an HSDPA gateway...

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...