Qualcomm and Teleepoch
Enter Into a 3G CDMA Subscriber Unit License Agreement, October
6, 2007
MTN chooses Cambridge Broadband
Networks for multi-service wireless network in Rwanda, October 6,
2007
Brazilian government to
publish 3G bidding rules soon, October 6, 2007
KTF 3G service suffers
from technical problems, October 6, 2007
Argentina’s Personal
lunches 3G service in Rosario, October 6, 2007
Russia has it's first 3G
network, October 6, 2007
AT&T could drop Alcatel-Lucent
as 3G mobile network supplier, October 6, 2007
Enea Extends License Agreement
with ZTE for 3G Handsets, October 2, 2007
LG to unveil premium handsets
in Brazil, October 2, 2007
KTF 3G subscribers doubled
in less than 3 months, October 2, 2007
3G policy in India will
be non-uniform, October 2, 2007
- previous news
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Motorola wants a bigger slice of the 3G handset market
June 22, 2003
Motorola, a US based company, announced the handset maker is planning
an aggressive comeback to narrow the mobile phone sales gap with Nokia
and to be more strongly presented on the worldwide market.
The president of Motorola Tom Lynches expects the group by the end of
2003 to have already brought out five next-generation 3G mobile handsets
including fifteen 2.5G colour handsets.
Nokia currently is the biggest mobile handsets provider with 35% of market
share while Motorola is only 4th with 12% market share which the company
is hoping to increase to 18% by the end of 2003.
At the present time, Motorola and Nokia are the only non-Japanese handset
makers to have launched 3G handsets on a commercial basis and each of
the companies have one WCDMA 3G handset released on the market.
Motorola is way ahead of Nokia in the 3G phone war. Motorola launched
their first 3G handset called the A830 back in March 2003 for Hutchison's
3G networks in Italy, UK and Australia. While Nokia only launched their
6650 two weeks ago in Japan for Vodafone J-Phone. The A830 is currently
outselling the 6650 by 16 to 1 and critics have said the A830 is a more
superior handset with better functions.
To increase its market share over Nokia, Motorola have announced 2 new
handsets to be released during the summer on Hutchison's 3G networks,
the A835 and the A920.
Motorola also licensed its 3G phone technology to Siemens Mobile. The
Siemens U10, based on the Motorola A830 was launched on Hutchison's Austria
3G network back in April 2003.
The A835 is an improve rendition of the A830 and will be Motorola's first
attempt to release a video phone with video conferencing facilities. The
A920 is a PDA type phone with touch-screen interface. Both of the phones
are GPS enabled and will be selling between £250 to £300.
Nokia have no new line-ups of 3G phones this year.
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3G Motorola A920
