Handsets/Terminals

Nokia's back-flip brings CDMA comunity out in hives

There's a bit of a publicity war going on at the moment with the main proponents of CDMA, the CDMA Development Group and Qualcomm, reacting to Nokia's move away from CDMA with a mix of wounded pride and

Nvidia and Intel team up for Windows Mobile 5.0 platform

NVIDIA Corporation has announced a reference design with Intel Corporation that will provide device manufacturers with a fast and easy solution for bringing powerful, media-rich handheld devices to market based on the Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 operating system.

Virgin Mobile sees 33% ARPU lift amongst Zi users

Intuitive UI seems to lift service usage

Virgin Mobile's sales and marketing director Graeme Hutchison has said that the operator measured a 33% uplift to ARPU from users who have Zi's Qix software installed on their phones.

Web Browser for S60 engine code released to open source community

Nokia today announced the release to the global open source software community of the source code for S60 WebKit, the engine for its Web Browser for S60, increasing the momentum of the drive toward an open code base

Customise or face lock-out

The Western European mobile phone market maintained double-digit growth in the opening quarter of 2006 as shipments increased by 11% year on year to reach 40.7 million units, compared to 36.8 million in the corresponding quarter of 2005.

Phones with an enterprise focus

Both Sony Ericsson and Nokia have launched cross-over phones aimed at business users who want phones that have multimedia functionality for “downtime”, as well as looking and operating like business tools.

Nokia launches E50 for mass business market

Adds device management platform

Nokia has added a further phone to is "E" series. The E50 is the fourth member of the family and, appropriately, is the smallest and thinnest in the range. It has also announced advanced

HTC STRTrk is launched

HTC, a leader in Microsoft Windows Mobile-based devices, has launched its STRTrk handset.  Available in black or pink, it is claimed to be the first music-focused clamshell smart phone to pack 'great entertainment features' into an ultra slim,