3G Features July 2005
3G Features July 2005
To coincide with the sale of these new 3G handsets, Vodafone K.K. will offer expanded Chaku-Uta Full® full track music download content starting mid-August.
Verizon Wireless and UTStarcom announced the immediate availability of the Verizon Wireless PC 5740 wireless PC Card for use on Verizon Wireless’ Evolution-Data Optimized (EV-DO) network.
Customers of the SANYO 3G mobile handset, the S750i, can now print their holiday photos instantly, thanks to the SANYO DVP-P1 EX colour printer.
Two major Australian mobile operators plan to develop mobile technologies which will enable seamless roaming between 3G mobile and WiFi networks.
Samsung Electronics announced the launch of its latest satellite DMB phone (model number: SCH-B200/SPH-B2000) with a unique “slide and rotate” form factor.
Motorola announces a successful 3G News trial with Spanish broadcaster, Radio Televisió Valenciana-RTVV, using 3G technology to allow broadcasters to seamlessly transmit real time video directly from the field to the television screen.
Esmertec has announced the commercial availability of u@(TM)PoC, its Push-To-Talk over Cellular Client for 2.5G and 3G mobile devices, enabling real-time communication to individuals or groups.
Oki Electric Industry announced its development of "Visual Contact Center," a demonstration system using the videophone function on 3G mobile phones.
Maxim Integrated Products (Nasdaq:MXIM) introduces the MAX2022, the world's lowest noise, highest linearity, 2GHz, Zero-IF I/Q modulator designed specifically for wireless infrastructure applications.
Convergence--encompassing the convergence between media, datacom and telecommunication industries--is the topic of the latest report from 3G Americas, a wireless industry group supporting GSM and its evolution to 3G and beyond.
3 is challenging the old networks by introducing simple, great value price plans starting at just €25 per month, and including generous bundles of anytime, any network voice minutes and texts.
Amp'd Mobile and Kyocera Wireless announced the Jet, an affordable high-speed EV-DO (Evolution Data Optimized) handset for rapid downloading of Amp'd's unique 3G content launching later this year.
Dilithium Networks announced that MTN, a leading South African mobile network operator, has selected the Dilithium DTG 2000 multimedia gateway for the delivery of multimedia and enhanced video services across their newly launched 3G network.
China's pending 3G license auction continues to hold the mobile community in suspense.
Vodafone K.K. announced that from early September 2005 it will market a new version of its currently available VC701SI Vodafone Connect Card (manufactured by SII)
3, the UK's first video mobile network, today announced that it has signed an agreement with Sony Ericsson to supply video mobiles for its handset portfolio.
Vodafone Group Plc ('Vodafone') announces today key performance indicators, presented under IFRS, for the quarter ended 30 June 2005.
Sandbridge Technologies has successfully implemented a complete "3G" multimedia handset design utilizing its SB3010(TM) flexible baseband processor to perform all baseband and multimedia functions in software.
Mobeon, the leading messaging company, has unveiled the world’s first 3G video messaging interface featuring mobile buddies. Mobile buddies are 3D animated avatars that replace the traditional operator voice by providing entertaining and personalised mailbox navigation to mobile subscribers.
With HSDPA from T-Mobile, Internet access and data transmission via mobile communications reach speeds comparable with the fixed-network DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) access. "By introducing HSDPA, we are making high-speed UMTS possible,
Imagicom Ltd is a company specialising in developing advanced level 3G technical training courses which we deliver both as public events and (more usually) as in-house courses to regular clients such as Nokia, Ubinetics, and Panasonic working in the area of 3G.
With an average 3.4% spending increase for telecom technologies and services, Europe’s 2005 enterprise telecom outlook is good. This is one of the key findings of a recent Business Technographics® survey of 305 telecom decision-makers at large European enterprises
Mobaila, a company focused on the creation of new contents and formats for broadband and UMTS markets, together with “3”
Sharp Corporation has developed a high-speed combination flash/SCRAM*1 memory device featuring a throughput of 320 MBps (bytes/second), more than three times the transfer rate of its predecessor model*2.
The number of mobile subscribers in Asia is set to top one billion by 2006, making the region the largest mobile market in the world.
KDDI has announced the introduction of EV-DO Rev. A functional extensions to its CDMA 2000 1x EV-DO data infrastructure for au mobile phones.
This major milestone firmly reinforces our commitment to become the leading SIM and (U)SIM vendor to premier North and Central American wireless carriers," noted Philippe Tartavull, president and CEO of Oberthur Card Systems' American division
More laptop users than ever can now have the freedom and simplicity that 3G offers with added control of cost. Vodafone UK today announces the availability of the UK's first Vodafone Mobile Connect Prepay 3G data card.
AdvancedTCA is a set of industry standard specifications developed by the PC Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group. As prominent group member Intel describes it, ATCA "provides standardized platform architecture for carrier-grade telecommunication applications.
Executives are increasingly adopting 3G technology for always on broadband connectivity worldwide, relinquishing the need to seek out Wi-Fi hot spots at venues such as coffee shops, travel hubs or rely on hotels for Internet access.
At 9pm on the 24th of July 2005 the BBC1 Science program, “The Secrets of the Sexes”, produced by Rod Williams (‘Ladette to Lady’), will use 3G Video Mobiles to link scientists and single members of the public in personal, one-to-one video consultations.
NEC Corporation announced that it has succeeded in the development of a mobile router that enables seamless broadband communication from high-speed mobile vehicles such as train and cars through the employment of wireless LAN and a 3G (mobile phone) network.
Customers of leading Portuguese mobile operator TMN now have a chance to "share the moment" with the person they are talking to as TMN launches commercial video sharing service in Portugal.
The main objective of 3G EasyGate gateway is a cost saving effect. Using this gateway, you can spare half of your company's telephone bill since all calls directed to UMTS networks are routed through 3G EasyGate and extortionate bills for the UMTS or GSM connection are avoided.
 
Pantech announced that it has launched the PH-S8000T, the first smartphone to be introduced to Korea.
Leading position reinforced for 3rd generation mobile networks. MultiMedia Research Institute confirms over 30 percent market share for Siemens/NEC. Five years of successful 3G partnership
 
Vodafone UK today launches a revolutionary new way to pay for calls abroad, with an easy-to-understand tariff, giving Vodafone customers exceptional value and greater price clarity.
Verizon Wireless and LG Electronics announced the July 15 availability of the LG VX8100 phone, the latest handset designed by LG Mobile Phones to take full advantage of Verizon Wireless' high-speed EV-DO (Evolution-Data Optimized) network.
Members of the mTLD Initiative, which include T-Mobile, announced the creation of a joint venture – mTLD Top Level Domain, Ltd., and the completion of a contract with Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
Key players in the development of High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) restated their commitment to delivering live commercial HSPA systems in 2006 during an open workshop organised by The UMTS Forum and hosted by Orange in Paris.
Volantis announced the launch of i-mode Express for O2, a service to help content providers deploy mobile services on O2's upcoming i-mode platform, scheduled to launch in the UK and Ireland later this year and in Germany next spring.
Over 250 industry experts from all over the world gathered in Seoul, Korea on June 27-28, 2005 to participate in the Third Generation Partnership Project 2 (3GPP2) workshop “Evolving to Future Wireless Telecommunications Technology”.
"24" fans who can't get enough of the exiting TV series simply have to switch on their UMTS mobile phone to watch the 24 serialised 'mobisodes' of "24: Conspiracy" that are now available to them.
Opera Software, world-leading developer of Web browsing technologies, today released the mobile version of their new browser, Opera 8 for Symbian S60.
Elpida Memory announced that it has started shipping samples of small form-factor, 512 Megabit Mobile RAM devices for high-performance, 3G cellular applications.
New surveys by GSA (Global mobile Suppliers Association) confirm market acceptance globally, and the rapid evolution to 3G mobile services delivery enabled by GSM/3G.
 
This is one of the conclusions to come out of the research for Informa Telecoms and Media's new report, Mobile Adult Services.
 
Freescale Semiconductor has been selected by Motorola to develop new platform solutions for third-generation (3G) UMTS communication technologies for products that will reach the mass marketplace through 2008.
Polish operator PTK Centertel, has selected Nokia to supply its WCDMA 3G network in Warsaw and Northern Poland.
A clear roadmap well into the near future has been developed for UMTS, the world's leading 3G high speed wireless data technology.
Lucent Technologies and MetroPCS Communications announced a three-year agreement valued at up to $500 million to provide MetroPCS with third-generation (3G) CDMA2000 equipment for new and existing markets across the United States.
PCTEL and Kyocera Wireless jointly announced their plans to cooperate in developing software for future 3G Kyocera handsets.
Within minutes of the tragic London bombings last week, news sites showed location video footage -- mainly from camera phones -- sent by members of the public.
ANADIGICS announced that the Company is shipping production volumes of GSM/GPRS and wideband CDMA (WCDMA) power amplifiers (PAs) to UTStarcom, Inc. for the GW200 handset.
Coding Technologies together with Telenor and Groove Mobile unveiled the inclusion of the company’s aacPlus audio codec into Telenor’s full track mobile music download service.
UbiquiTel announced it has launched its new Wireless High-Speed Data (Evolution Data Optimized or EV-DO) service in select business districts and airports throughout the cities of Boise, Idaho and Reno, Nevada,
Following successful trials over recent months, Vodafone Sweden has chosen Nokia to deploy its Push to Talk over Cellular (PoC) network solution. Vodafone Sweden will launch the service in September.
At The Races announced today that its ground breaking interactive 3G service is now available to Vodafone 3G customers.
Samsung Electronics has become Korea's first corporation to export system hardware for wideband CDMA, a third-generation mobile communications technology platform.
SUNDAY Communications announced the commercial launch of its 3G network.
Digital Chocolate, a developer of software for mobile phones, has teamed up with video mobile network 3 to bring Atkins2Go to mobile for the first time in Europe.
"We believe it is more fun and more challenging to play human opponents," said Peter Lindstrom, CEO, Mobile Interaction.
"Satisfying and meeting customer needs for mobile data service is all about having the broadest range of connectivity choices and providing the best overall mobile data experience,
Mobile video specialist, All New Video, announced that it has completed trials and has gone live with a video blogging service for UK broadcaster, ITN.
The CDMA Development Group (CDG) (www.cdg.org) and Signals Research Group, LLC announced the availability of a white paper discussing the realities of WiMAX standards and their potential market applications.
DOVADO introduces a new range of products for the Wireless Broadband market.
The categories were: Best Consumer Solution and Best Enterprise Solution with a special additional category of Most Entrepreneurial Developer which was created during the judging process.
Option N.V. announced that KPN the leading Dutch mobile operator has selected Option’s GlobeTrotter FUSION™ as the wireless broadband data solution for its mobile customers.
“The wireless industry is rapidly migrating to 3G CDMA and in many respects CDMA2000 in Asia is leading the way,” said Perry LaForge, executive director of the CDG.
Fujitsu Laboratories announced its co-development with NTT DoCoMo of a prototype high-capacity micro fuel cell(1) and the prototype development of an external recharger for FOMA handsets.
Siemens is building the first 3G network in Qatar on the Arabian Peninsula.
"A variety of delivery vehicles for mobile TV service are here today," commented Chris Pearson, President of 3G Americas.
The failing of WCDMA to deliver the true 3G experience has forced the industry to push ahead earlier than expected with the implementation of HSDPA and HSUPA.
Vodafone Live! customers in the Netherlands can now access Gamer.tv video content on their mobile phone. The service went live this week only seven days after signing the agreement.
The UK mobile operator is a recent entrant into the market, offering to its customer base, which has already reached eight million subscribers, one of the most advanced video mobile (3G) networks in the world. It prides itself on offering "an unrivalled package of voice content and video services at an unrivalled and sustainable price.
Furthering its mission to make visual communications accessible everywhere, TANDBERG announced the acquisition of Ivigo, a leading provider of interactive multimedia video applications and a developer of video services for 3G mobile phones. The technology innovator is a division of TNO, the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research.
NTT DoCoMo, Inc. announced today that the company together with Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. has developed a new and improved prototype methanol fuel cell for 3G FOMA® handsets. The new prototype enables eight hours of continuous talk time, three times the capacity of the existing prototype
As the first mobile operator in Hungary, T-Mobile started its customer test on the company’s integrated 3G network in Budapest in June. Within hardly more than two weeks upon starting the test, the largest Hungarian mobile operator also offers the possibility for participants to use video telephony in several foreign networks.
Anite Telecoms announced the commercial launch of its first HSDPA test case package. The product, now being shipped to customers, is the result of Anite’s continuous collaboration with the world’s leading wireless operators and developers, and demonstrates its commitment to offering the best service possible to its customers.
SpinVox, the world's first voicemail-to-text service, is partnering with video mobile network 3 in a UK first. SpinVox is being offered directly to 3 million customers on the UK's first video mobile network. Now 3's customers can choose to receive voicemails as text messages, further enhancing 3's mobile services.
T3G Technology announced today the launch of the first ASIC-based TD-SCDMA high speed data card solution and the T3G TD7211C data card that supports download speeds of up to 384kbps, thereby enabling an exciting 3G wireless data experience such as mobile internet,
Mobilkom Austria announced that its A1 high-speed multimedia UMTS + EDGE network is now available Austria-wide. UMTS already has over 62% coverage of the population today. The addition of EDGE provides 97% network coverage, whereby the Group's wireless customers are thus being offered the first and only Austria-wide high-performance wireless network of the third generation.
For the first time in Malaysia, 3G can be enjoyed by both prepaid as well as postpaid mobile phone users, opening the door to all 15 million mobile users in the country including the 6.5 million Maxis customers.
Vodafone have begun offering two new 3G wireless handsts now available in the UK. These are the Sony Ericsson V600i and the Samsung Z500.
NTT DoCoMo, Inc. and its eight regional subsidiaries announced today that they will expand FOMA® 3G international roaming and videophone services in Europe and Asia.
T-Mobile is the first carrier in Europe to bring free Internet to mobile phones: web’n’walk is the name of the offer that T-Mobile is using to compile attractive packages for mobile users in the World Wide Web.
As part of its drive to remain at the forefront of wireless conformance testing, BABT has embarked on a major investment programme to cater for the needs of the 3G marketplace.
Retel d.o.o. and Arbital Communications Sdn. Bhd., today announced that they will deploy a next generation mobile broadband service in Zagreb, Croatia, using Flarion Technologies' FLASH-OFDM® technology.
BWCS : UK mobile operator mmO2 has denied it is the subject of a possible takeover bid this morning. However, rumours swirling around the City of London have propelled the company’s shares to a new high.
NEC Corporation announced that it has developed its first i-mode 3G wireless terminal "N600i" for an operator outside Japan and has commenced delivery of the terminal for COSMOTE,
Opera Software announced that the Opera browser is included on the new Toshiba W31T. The BREW-based, 20 mm thin Toshiba W31T boasts a 2.4 megapixel camera in addition to full Internet and e-mail capabilities, and is available on KDDI's 3G network in Japan from June 30.
Orange announced the availability of its second generation 3G Mobile Office Card. Targeted at businesses of all sizes, the 3G Mobile Office Card offers users integrated access to the Orange 3G and GPRS networks, as well as supporting WiFi connections.
Axcera, a leading manufacturer and integrator of best-of-breed technology for the television broadcast and broadband wireless access industries, today announced that it will feature a live DVB-H mobile video demonstration and headline the mobile video session
Nextel Communications will deploy a wireless broadband trial based on UMTS TD-CDMA technology from IPWireless, the companies announced today. The field trial will begin during the third quarter in Washington, D.C.; Arlington, Va.; Alexandria, Va.; Reston, Va. and Bethesda, Md.
Red Bend Software announced it has signed a global agreement with LG Electronics to deploy its vCurrent(TM) Mobile FOTA update technology on LG 3G handsets. Red Bend's technology will allow LG Electronics to quickly, reliably and cost-effectively deliver firmware updates over the air to its most advanced mobile devices.
Opera Software, global leader in Web browser technologies, and T-Mobile introduced the new Nokia 6680 with the Opera browser as part of T-Mobile's "Internet in your pocket" offering available in July 2005.
Pantech, one of the world’s leading mobile communications groups - comprised of Pantech&Curitel Communications, Inc., Pantech Co., Ltd. and Pantech C&I Inc. (“Pantech” hereafter) - has just launched the PG-6100 multimedia phone, a new model aimed at young, trend conscious, style savvy consumers.
3 Hong Kong keeps to its promise of providing the most comprehensive selection of 3G video mobile phones in town. Including the latest addition - Sony Ericsson K600i, a dual camera lens video mobile phone with quad-band capability
Participants to the 3G customer test of the largest Hungarian mobile operator can follow the most popular programs of TV2
Telstra today announced its 3GSM network and customer service platforms were now operational in six mainland capital cities and that it would commence an internal trial in July to ensure customers received high standards of service when Telstra's 3GSM services are launched.
IN-FUSIO, the publisher of top-of-the-range games for mobile phones, today announces that it is bringing the original and best drawing toy, Etch-A-Sketch, into the 21st century with the launch of the mobile version.
SmartVideo Technologies announced today that short form video series from Two Minute Television Network will be available to anyone with a smartphone or PDA equipped with a media player.
DoCoMo's i-mode™ 8 alliance partners announced today the first joint procurement tie-up for i-mode handsets.
Airvana, Inc. announced that it will present advanced 1xEV-DO features, including multicast, QoS and VoIP, to China's 3G community.
The GSM world is looking to HSDPA to increase downlink cellular bandwidth, first because of the high data rates required to transfer advanced multimedia to the handset, and also because HSDPA reduces the cost/megabyte of transmission to less than half that of 3G WCDMA.
   

 
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