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CategoryTier 1 manufacturers starting to understand the China price
At a conference last December I listened to an interesting presentation from Madeline Duva, then CEO of China MobileSoft, entitled: ‘The China Price’. The title was taken from a Business Week article which explained that China’s combination of lo…
The numbers tell the story
IDC published its quarterly market share figures today and they make interesting reading. They provide numerical evidence of the trends we’ve been reporting recently, showing strong growth for both Motorola and Sony Ericsson on the back of their …
Flexible building blocks
For many years handset development has proceeded along two tracks: devices designed for GSM and devices designed for CDMA. One of the most basic design choices is the baseband processor where these functions are handled and, since these have alwa…
Cingular working with Bango to open US mobile internet
Bango.net, the pioneering payment platform for the mobile internet, has secured an agreement with Cingular, the largest operator in the US, to integrate with its payment gateway. The deal will allow third party content providers to bill for their…
Motorola Q offers new take on mobile email
I talked about the sea-change in Motorola’s design approach a few days ago and hinted the DNA of RAZR, its flagship clamshell, was soon to be seen throughout the MOTO range. Yesterday the company officially unveilved ‘Q’, a Windows Mobile smartph…
Vodafone records stronger growth in advanced services
Vodafone’s Q2 KPIs highlighted stronger growth in revenues from non-messaging data services in almost all of its territories. These are revenues derived from the Live portal and usage of other advanced data offerings such as the Mobile Connect ca…
US carriers finally improving multimedia messaging experience
Verizon and Sprint, respectively the second and third largest mobile carriers in the US, announced today that users on both networks will now be able to exchange multimedia messages (MMS). US carriers have been among the slowest in the world to e…
Ikivo ships mobile SVG authoring tools
Ikivo has announced it is now shipping its Animator product, which integrates with Adobe’s Illustrator and GoLive to enable developers to create mobile SVG applications. Mobile SVG is a vector-based technology, allowing graphics to scale easily a…