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| NEC 3G Handset Comes To Australia |
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16th April 2003 |
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NEC e606 shown left. Full spec below. "NEC is extremely pleased to partner with Hutchison in the launch of 3 and to be first to market in Australia with a true 3G solution," said Brendan McManus, Director, NEC Australia. "NEC is creating mobile internet solutions with the power to improve the way we all lead our lives, and 3G services represent a milestone in achieving this. Today we're the first to offer mobile video-calling and mobile multimedia, which will revolutionise the delivery of mobile information, communication and entertainment." The NEC Technology Centre in Melbourne has been extensively involved in application development and customisation for the launch, including handset, application and network interoperability and functionality. This includes development of text input applications for the e606 and email applications for future handsets. "In addition, our 3G R&D Team at NEC's Technology Centre in Melbourne, which has 140 R&D engineers dedicated to core development and applications development for 3G handsets, will continue working to push new boundaries for 3G technologies."NEC's e606 is an all-in-one handset with phone, digital video and picture camera, music player, modem and much more. The silver and black handset has a sleek, contemporary design. It includes 2 built-in cameras for Videotalk, 4-way navigation key, as well as Video and Picture Messaging capabilities. It supports services such as news, weather, finance and horoscopes, comedy, digital music player and contains a modem forinternet access. The e606 is dual-mode (2G:GSM/CSD and 3G:UMTS/W-CDMA), enabling users to access 3G multimedia services and 2G (voice) services, and supports SMS and MMS. A large 65,536 colour display is suited to Internet browsing and downloading of the range of news, sport, and entertainment services available through 3. The handset also supports a wide range of graphic, audio and video file types, which can be downloaded at speeds of up to 385kbps. Mobile gaming is a key attraction of the e606, whichfeatures Java(TM) technology and a memory of up to 32MB. NEC's 3G handsets have USB connectivity, rendering them adaptable and useful for those wishing to use them not only for gaming and entertainment but also for business-related communications."By 2004, we anticipate that a majority of all new mobile phone connections will be using 3G services, and we're very pleased to see the launch of 3G in Australia get off to such a great start. NEC's experience with advanced 3G mobile technologies, integrated cameras and sophisticated functionality in Europe and Japan will be crucial in our re emergence in the mobile phone market in Australia." Special
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World's first dual mode 2G/3G device - supports data upload of 64 kbps and download of 384 kbps* Large 65,536 16bit colour display Two cameras for picture and video Supports video calls* Supports a wide range of graphics and audio file formats Video recorder (12 seconds) and playback Full Internet browsing* Download and play audio and video (supports MPEG4 and WMA files)* Download and play games using JAVA(TM) technology* Send video clips, sound and photos with MMS* General
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| TODAY'S
PRESS RELEASES |
Hutchison
Telecoms today launched 3 - Australia's first, live, person-to-person
mobile, video calling and information, communication and entertainment
service. |
NEC
unveiled the NEC e606, one of Australia's first 3G mobile handsets and
the first and only model to offer mobile video calling. From today, the
e606 is being marketed by Hutchison Telecoms, under the first global 3G
service, branded 3. |
Motorola
announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Winphoria
Networks, Inc., a core infrastructure provider of next generation packet
based mobile switching centers for wireless networks. |
Ericsson
announced that the company has conducted 2.1GHz CDMA2000 voice and data
calls on its CDMA2000 1xEV-DV ready infrastructure equipment. Ericsson's
industry-leading 2.1GHz CDMA2000 solution is based on a true 3G platform
designed to support 1xEV-DO and 1xEV-DV services. |
Built
on Ericsson's global 3G Connectivity Packet Platform (CPP), this seamless
multi-access solution will allow China Unicom to efficiently and cost-effectively
deliver advanced mobile Internet services to their customers. |
The
CDMA Development Group (CDG) announced that it co-hosted a seminar in
San Jose, Costa Rica, that showcased the CDMA2000(R) family of standards
and their capabilities. |
Under
the terms of the agreement, Amplefuture will also provide an MMS service
for msn.co.uk, which will allow customers to download colour content,
i.e. picture messages and screensavers. |
Wednesday's
decision by Brazil's Agência Nacional de Telecomuniçacões
(ANATEL) to reaffirm the sole use of 1800 MHz for Personal Mobile Services
(SMP) licenses will sustain continued growth of mobile services in not
only Brazil, but in other countries in the Americas, in the opinion of
the wireless association 3G Americas |
The
WLAN industry will continue to experience stellar growth as deployments
in several key markets take place," predicts Edward A. Rerisi, ABI
Director of Research. |
KDDI
and its sister company Okinawa Cellular has hit 7 million 3G mobile phone
subscribers this month. |
Novatel
Wireless and Sprint announced availability of MobileScape(TM), a wireless
business process application and payment processing system designed for
business critical transactions in the mobile workforce technology market.
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Hutchison
3G in the UK ( 3 UK ), the first 3G operator to commercially launch 3G
in Europe during March 2003, has reduced the price of its 3G handsets
and extended the introductory 50% discount offer by another month which
will now terminate at end of April, 2003. |
Wavecom
SA announced that it will supply TCL Mobile Communication with the core
wireless technology for TCL's S320 and S500 mobile telephones, which will
be the focus of an important marketing campaign. |
Subex
Systems, the Bangalore, India-based Telecom Software Products company
announced that it has won an order from Total Access Communication (TAC),
Thailand, to deploy its flagship Fraud Management System, Ranger™.
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For
now, Cellcom has decided to follow the market and not publish the 3G tender,”
Cellcom CTO Lipa Ogman told “Globes” in an exclusive interview. |
Five
leading mobile operators in the region announced today that they have
teamed up to form the Asia Mobility Initiative (AMI), Asia's first initiative
which aims to enhance mobile users' experience, especially in the area
of mobile data. |
PT.
Telkom, Indonesia’s largest telecommunications operator, has selected
a Motorola CDMA2000 1X system to bring 3G wireless services to the ten
provinces of Sumatra. Sumatra is one of the largest islands and one of
the fastest growing areas in Indonesia. |
Openet
Telecom announced that Edge Wireless will deploy FusionWorks Mediation,
Openet's convergent mediation platform, to support the rollout of new
2.5G and 3G services to its subscriber base. |
See
it, feel it, hear it. With 3D stereo sound, built-in VGA camera, vibration
capabilities, unique disco lights, color screen and the ability to create
your own musical ring tunes, the tri-band Motorola E390 delivers a sensory
overload. |
ADVFN,
the UK's number one stocks and shares Web site, is providing live stocks
and shares information to investors on the move. The first advertiser
of this new service is Intel. |
The
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or SARS virus outbreak has forced the
event organizers of the TD-SCDMA conference in Beijing this week to cancel. |
Visa
International, Nippon Shinpan, OMC Card and AEON Credit today announced
the start of a pilot program, together with NTT DoCoMo, Inc., to test
a service for making credit card payments at bricks and mortar merchants
via DoCoMo 504i and 504iS series mobile phones, which are equipped with
infrared transmission (IrDA) ports. |
Ericsson
has been chosen by América Móvil as main supplier for the
Core Infrastructure and one of the principal suppliers for the Radio Infrastructure
for a GSM and EDGE Network to complement the existing TDMA network of
its Brazilian subsidiary Telecom Americas. |
The
development follows a European wide agreement to distribute the games
via retail packs announced today between Digital Bridges, a world leader
in mobile entertainment solutions and Namco Europe |
SM
increased its digital cellular subscriber base in the Americas by 54%
in 2002, the largest percentage gain of any wireless technology in the
region. In Latin America, GSM increased its subscriber base by 90% in
2002, largely in the second half of the year when several new GSM networks
were commercially launched. |
All
four of the 3G licence holders in Sweden has applied for a 2 or 3 year
delay to the full rollout of 3G in Sweden. This is based on problems getting
approval for the siting of telecom masts and the scarcity of the handsets. |
The
number of NTT DoCoMo 3G FOMA subscribers increased to 320,000 subscribers
up to March 2003. This means that DoCoMo hit the targets they had previously
stated. |
The
multimedia composer and transaction engine made available by Liquid Air
Lab, combined with the mBill billing platform, enabled mBill to integrate
an existing SMS chat application with a multimedia messaging component.
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n
top of all the other challenges facing MMS before it can become the success
that the mobile operators are hoping for and boost non-voice revenues
to new heights - one issue stands out that is crucial for the content
providers before they even think about publishing and selling content
via MMS - Digital Rights Management (DRM) |
Response
to Californian Congressman Darrell Issa’s letter to the Honorable
Donald Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defence from Rob Conway, CEO of the GSM
Association and Member of its Board. |
LG
will launch a rotational camera-fitted GPRS phone on the Italian market,
the largest in Europe. The camera phone model is fitted with 65,000 -color
TFD-LCD and 40 poly and intended for export to Europe. |
All
European telcos can learn valuable lessons from i-mode and Vodafone live!,
according to a new brief by Forrester Research. Europe's i-mode gets the
services right and the marketing wrong, while Vodafone live! does the
opposite. |
The
PA-Manager allows operators to enforce the priority access policy at cell
level without compromising Quality-of-User Experience (QoE) for all other
services sharing the same media space, and also to monitor application
performance on a cell-by-cell basis. |
To
their disappointment, some operators now find it nearly impossible to
recover their investments and most have delayed their plans to deploy
3G, according to a new study by research firm Allied Business Intelligence
(ABI). |
DTAC
announced cooperation with world’s leader in mobile communications
Nokia to strengthen its position as the leading wireless data services
provider. |
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Australia
: NEC unveiled the NEC e606, one of Australia's first 3G mobile handsets
and the first and only model to offer mobile video calling. From today,
the e606 is being marketed by Hutchison Telecoms, under the first global
3G service, branded 3.