The P903i from NTT DoCoMo, Japan’s top mobile carrier, comes with a small black card about the size of a movie-ticket stub. The card works as a security key by connecting wirelessly with the cell phone.
If an owner keeps the card in a bag or pocket, the phone recognizes when the card moves too far […]
Japanese mobile phone carrier Softbank Mobile Corp., which slashed its prices last week to undercut rivals, said it had to stop taking new applications Sunday because it was flooded by new customers wanting to switch to its service.
It is a bitter victory for Softbank, which had rolled out the aggressive price cuts in a last-ditch […]
The Asia-Pacific telecommunications market is seeing a dramatic change in the business landscape as players look for opportunities in new technologies like Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPV6).
The recent Asia-Pacific Wholesale Telecommunications Congress here has identified some of the profitable investment opportunities in the region via VoIP and IPV6. […]
Phone companies are losing about 2% of their customers every quarter to mobile carriers and VoIP providers like Skype. Now another type of company is after those customers. Consider Jajah the un-Skype, because unlike that service or Vonage, its customers don’t need a Net-connected phone or headset to use its VoIP service.
To use Jajah, […]
Motorola has announced its newest handset the MOTOSLVR L7e, a tweak to the popular but aging SLVR L7. The L7e not only gets a cosmetic touch up with a purple-blue-ish color, but also a specifications update with EDGE network support, Bluetooth stereo A2DP and a 1.3-megapixel camera. Fortunately for existing owners of microSD-slot […]
M5T, provider of software solutions for secure real-time multimedia communications over IP, has announced that M5T and Global IP Sound (GIPS) has teamed up to develop a comprehensive and portable Secure VoIP SIP Client Software Development Kit.
Based on open standards, the Secure VoIP SIP Client SDK solution will integrate the GIPS VoiceEngine - a comprehensive, […]
Common Platform technology founding members IBM, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing and Samsung Electronics have produced 90nm chips for Qualcomm in their respective 300mm fabs.
Working with Qualcomm, the Common Platform members have manufactured low-power system-on-chip (SoC) products that support mobile telecommunications technologies. The chips are being used in cellular phone chipsets and other devices to enable wireless […]
Bang & Olufsen America, a North American supplier of high end home theatres and custom multi-room music systems, will launch its first cell phone to arrive in North America next month. The new mobile phone, entitled Serene, is a result of the cooperation between Bang & Olufsen and Samsung
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Serene consists of two equal […]
i-mate, who recently unveiled the JAQ and the SPL at Mobile Asia 2006, has readied a follow-up to their JASJAR handset called the K-JAR.
the K-JAR does GSM/GPRS, Windows Mobile 5, of course, running on a TI OMAP750 with 128 MB ROM and 64 MB RAM. It’s got a 2.8″ QVGA (320×240) display, unlike the […]
Instead of buying the Mission: Impossible 3 DVD and then converting it to play on your mobile phone, you can think about upgrading to the Nokia N93, which will come bundled with a 512MB memory card containing the whole movie to coincide with the DVD release. The movie is free—no additional cost other than […]
T-Mobile Dash is a quad-band world phone working on 850, 900, 1800 and 1900 Mhz networks that comes with GPRS/EDGE and Wi-Fi 802.11g (with speeds that go up to 54 MB/s) connectivity so you will be able to access the wireless network at the fast speeds that T-Mobile HotSpots are offering, and this way, […]
The Cingular 8125 combines a quad-band phone with a Windows Mobile 5.0 PDA with all the bells and whistles: Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, a miniSD card slot, support for EDGE high speed data, and more. And don’t forget the unique slide-out QWERTY keyboard that makes messaging, note-taking, and other writing tasks a breeze.
The 8125 lets you […]