July 2005
Meet the speakers: Will Harris
I first met Will Harris when he was head of marketing at O2, having led the company’s re-branding exercise after it split from BT. Will’s career in the mobile telecoms industry goes back much further, however, to his pioneering work on the creati…
Sharp preparing new 3G handsets for Vodafone
Vodafone KK, the Japanese operator, will start selling two new 3G handsets manufactured by Sharp in August. The first, 703SH, is a lightweight, entry-level device with a 1.3 mega-pixel camera. It has a small clamshell form-factor and weighs just…
Tier 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…
Meet the speakers: Kristoffer Aberg
Continuing our series of articles to introduce you to the speakers at the MEX conference, we’re pleased to welcome Kristoffer Aberg, Senior Interaction Designer at Sony Ericsson.
Kristoffer will speak on the panel entitled ‘Innovations in softw…
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…
W2Forum supports MEX
We are pleased to welcome the Wireless World Forum as a supporter of the PMN Mobile User Experience conference. The Forum is a business development and knowledge share network for senior decision makers in the telecommunications, media and techno…