Nokia cozies up to TD-SCDMA some more, launches China Mobile versions of the X5 and C5, joins TD Forum
Though the standard GSM technology path has always been (and will likely always be) Nokia's bread and butter, Espoo has warmed to the idea of alternatives in the past couple years -- they've ended up establishing a reasonably decent lineup with Verizon in the States, and for China, TD-SCDMA is the name of the game these days.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: china-mobile, design, entry, game, nokia, photos, press, result, s60, states, symbian
Dell Mini 3T1 and Mini 3iX 3G phones spotted with Chinese mobile regulator
If we need another reason to be envious of Chinese residents, it'd be the premium treatment that they're getting from Dell these days. Spotted on Chinese mobile regulator TENAA's website are two 3G phones from seemingly different design departments -- the never-before-seen Mini 3T1 (pictured) is a "TD-SCDMA / GSM dual-mode cellphone" that "supports HSDPA," dons a 2-megapixel camera on the back plus a front-facing one, and we're betting on Ophone for the OS; the second device is the familiar Mini 3iX (an exotic cousin of AT&T's Aero ) that will sport the same old WCDMA radio
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: 3ix, 3t1, china-mobile, dell mini 3ix, entry, handsets, mini3t1, ophone, phones-spotted, premium, result, streak
HTC says its growth in the US is ‘faster than others’
This one's fairly light on specifics, but HTC CEO Peter Chou has given an interview to The Wall Street Journal where he dropped a few interesting tidbits, the most notable being that HTC's growth in the US is apparently "faster than others." Exactly what that translates to in actual numbers is unclear, but Chou did say that HTC expects to ship more than the 5.5 million to 6 million smartphones it shipped in the US last year. That growth is apparently due in large part to support from Verizon and T-Mobile, which Chou says "started treating us as their first-tier suppliers last year" and gave the company some "strong momentum." Chou also went on to confirm that HTC will be introducing six new models for China in partnership with China Mobile this year, and that it's aiming to ship four to five million units to China annually by 2011. HTC says its growth in the US is 'faster than others' originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 04 Apr 2010 11:56:00 EST
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other, htc Tags: cellphonesales, ceo, china-mobile, engadget, five-million, htc, mobile, models, peter-chou, street, street-journal, sun, suppliers, verizon
China Mobile given OK to set up shop in Taiwan
It's not every day that a Chinese company gets regulatory approval to invest in Taiwan. Actually, a Chinese company has never before been given permission to invest in Taiwan's communications infrastructure, so it's pretty big news here that the world's largest carrier by subscribers -- China Mobile -- has just been greenlighted to set up a subsidiary there. Initially, they're going in under the guise of becoming an electronics wholesaler, but longer term, they're interested in taking a 12 percent stake in local carrier Far EasTone that would work out to $17.8 billion Taiwan dollars (roughly $558 million) which would represent a pretty unprecedented level of technical synergy between the nations
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: 17-8-billion, china-mobile, communications, eastone, engadget-mobile, fareastone, largest-carrier, nations, sense, surface, taiwan, unprecedented
Twenty-four telecom operators unite to form Wholesale Applications Community
Big doings over in Barcelona today. Twenty-four telecom operators, with the support of the GSMA and three major hardware manufacturers, have formally announced they will come together to form the Wholesale Applications Community. Essentially, the goal of the alliance will be to create a viable, cohesive and open industry platform for mobile app developers.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: 2010, after-the-break, application, applications, barcelona, china-mobile, china-unicom, developers, doings, endeavors, manufacturers, operators
Lenovo LePhone launching in Le May
As Google and China trade blows on the global stage Lenovo just keeps on truckin' with its plans to launch the Android-powered LePhone in China and overseas. Samsung and Motorola you'll recall, already bent under Google's pressure and agreed to delay the launch of their respective handsets in China last week. Lenovo execs are planning for a hat-trick launch in May on China Unicom, China Mobile, and China Telecom with a rest of world launch expected later in the year.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: after-the-break, china, china-mobile, expected-later, handsets, respective, smartphone, tier, unicom
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: announcement, capability, china-mobile, chinese, country, locals, marketing, mobile, motorola, result, shop4apps
Motorola China has a bunch of smartphones on tap this year
China is one of Motorola's last safe havens for Windows Mobile-powered devices , but even the Far East is falling to the inevitable onslaught of little green robots -- one need look no further than the XT701, MT710, and XT800 for evidence of that. That leads us to believe that the company's 2010 haul of smartphones for China will be primarily Android-based -- particularly in light of China Mobile's commitment to it through Open Mobile System -- expanding on comments in Korea this week by Moto's GM of the mobile devices business that there will "probably another four or five [smartphones] later" in the region following the recent announcements of the MT710 and XT800 and the upcoming launch of the XT701. Considering that China continues to be a stronghold for Moto, we're not surprised to see so much of the company's product R&D dollars go that way -- as long as the rest of the world ends up getting some trickle-down benefit, of course.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: china, china-mobile, far, inevitable, korea, mobile, moto, result
Bell Labs spearheads Green Touch initiative to improve network energy efficiency
Normally we might not cover the formation of a new consortium with ridiculously lofty goals like this, but check it: Bell Labs has managed to corral a who's-who of carriers, universities, government agencies, and industry labs with the goal of making communications networks more energy efficient than they are today. What makes the goal so lofty, though, is the fact that Bell wants to improve efficiency by a whopping 1,000 times -- a number it says should be possible based on research it has done suggesting a 10,000-fold improvement is theoretically possible. Heavy-hitting members include China Mobile (the world's largest carrier), AT&T, Swisscom, Telefonica, MIT, Stanford, Freescale, and the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, so we're feeling good about the plausibility of Green Touch's first proposed milestone: a reference architecture and sample components within five years capable of meeting the 1,000-fold improvement mark.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: bell labs, china, china-mobile, gathering, goal, green touch, greentouch, largest-carrier, members-include, number-it-says, possible-based, technology
Motorola's DROID-ish MT710 Android phone headed to China soon
Motorola will soon be pushing their Android wares in China.
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, Mobile Phone, Other, htc Tags: bio, BlackBerry, china-mobile, htc, manufacturers, Mobile Phone, motorola, motorola-droid, photon, posts, sections, trophy-and-tera, twitter