Handsets
Fusionone partners with Susteen
Fusionone, a provider of mobile phone content portability services, has partnered with Susteen, an international content transfer provider specialising in the area of data communications and mobile computing, to integrate Fusionone’s Handset Transfer Solution product with Susteen’s Mobile Genie in-store cable-based data transfer solution. As a result of this integration, consumers purchasing a new mobile [...]
Ureach unveils mobile visual voicemail solution
Ureach Technologies, a provider of converged communications solutions, has introduced a mobile application that claims to improve the user experience for mobile voicemail. The mobile visual voicemail application lets cell phone subscribers see who has left messages and listen to them instantly, without requiring the user to dial into a voicemail system or to navigate [...]
Nokia, Qualcomm to develop advanced mobile devices
Nokia and Qualcomm are planning to work together to develop advanced UMTS mobile devices, initially for North America. The companies intend for the devices to be based on S60 software on Symbian OS, the software for smartphones, and leverage Qualcomm’s advanced Mobile Station Modem (MSM) MSM7xxx-series and MSM8xxx-series chipsets for processing performance and mobile broadband [...]
ST-Ericsson, Nokia in cooperation deal
Nokia and ST-Ericsson are cooperating to provide the Symbian Foundation with a reference platform based on ST-Ericsson’s U8500 single chip. The chip, which combines ST-Ericsson’s application processor and HSPA (High-Speed Packet Access) Release 7 modem, is aimed at enabling the adoption, across the industry, of feature-rich, multimedia 3G Smartphones. The U8500, which relies on the [...]
GyPSii launches OpenExperience API
GeoSentric’s, GyPSii business unit, has launched the GyPSii OpenExperience API (OEx), an all-inclusive platform for incorporating location-based social networking functionality into embedded mobile clients and applications. The company will be demonstrating select services of OEx on the soon to be released GyPSii native application support for the iPhone. OEx supports a new ‘user experience’ on [...]
Kingston Digital unveils 16GB microSDHC card
Kingston Digital, the Flash memory affiliate of Kingston Technology Company, is releasing a 16GB microSDHC Flash memory card for use in mobile phones. The company informed that the larger capacity card offers greater storage options for the mobile phones and other digital devices and joins the microSDHC card family which includes the 4- and 8GB [...]
Glu to bring new Transformers game to mobile phones
Glu Mobile, a publisher of mobile games, will launch a game based on the movie, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, which will be released in theatres on 26 June, from DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures, in association with Hasbro. The game represents the next title from the mobile gaming franchise that Glu has launched in [...]
Modu secures $38.5m order to bring mobile phone ecosystem to SE Asia
Modu, a manufacturer of mobile phones, has announced an exclusive agreement with Lynk Communications to distribute Modu phones and Modu jackets – designed phone enclosures – in the Philippines, with agreements in several other countries in the region to be announced at a later date. An initial order of Modu phones and Modu jackets, valued [...]
Samsung launches solar-powered touch phone
Samsung Electronics has unveiled a solar powered full-touch screen phone ‘Blue Earth’, alongside Samsung’s vision for environmental sustainability. Designed to symbolise a flat and rounded shiny pebble, Blue Earth is claimed to be the first solar-powered full-touch screen phone. By charging with the solar panel located on the back of the phone, users can generate [...]
Digitalgobe signs multi-year agreement with Nokia
Digitalgobe and Nokia have agreed to bring the real-world perspective of ‘high-resolution’ satellite and aerial imagery to Nokia Maps, both on mobile devices and on Ovi, with the aim to improve the global driving, hiking and walking navigation capabilities for consumers who use these applications. Through streamlined technology integration and development of a proprietary format [...]
