June 20th, 2008
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When we heard Steve Jobs said that the 3G iPhone will be sold at $199 and $299 on June 10, 2008, most of us suddenly shocked! (WWDC Moscone Center audience said wooooo…..). How could it that be?
Well, honestly I may not know the details but a post from Ventures Beat’s MG Siegler will give [...]
June 7th, 2008
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So, who’s the number one contestant in the league of smartphone in this Q1 2008? Is it RIM with their Blackberry, Apple with the iPhone giga-hyped, or perhaps Nokia with their N and E Series? Let see the quick report from Gartnerhere.
1. Nokia
The Finnish has sold out about 14,588,600 smartphone in this Q1. Jumped 25.3% [...]
June 6th, 2008
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CDMA Development Group (CDG) reported in June 2, 2008 that there are 451 million CDMA subscribers worldwide nowadays. This is a 17% increasing from the past year. From that total 451 million, CDMA2000(r) contribute for 438 million users while CDMA2000 1xEV-DO reaching 97 million.
Here are another quick facts on this issue, especially for Asia Pacific:
In [...]
June 2nd, 2008
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Sony Ericsson W350i VS LG Chocolate. And the winner is …
This is an important news analysis from the famous firm, Gartner. So we couldn’t afford ourself not to put it here. There have been just a change in world’s five largest cellphone manufacturers position; LG had overtake Sony Ericsson as the fourth [...]
June 2nd, 2008
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Yes, Pakistan had reached 85 million mobile phone subscribers.
3GWeek team are so often reporting mobile news from India. Currently, there are about twenty reports on them which we collected in one category; India. But what about Pakistan? Only fours. Anyway, that’s not the matter here.
What matter now is that Pakistan has increased their mobile phone [...]
May 23rd, 2008
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PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia Tbk TLKM.JK (Indonesian used to called it Telkom), Indonesia’s largest telecom firms report that their first quarter net-profit increased to 3.21 trillion rupiah ($344.9 million) from 3.0 trillion rupiah. However, this result had missed analysts’ previous expectations. Those analyst’ said that it could be about 3.37 trillion rupiah.
More on this news via [...]
April 30th, 2008
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More cell phones possibly means more subscribers.
Yet another magnificent achievement by Indian; 261.09 million in wireless mobile subscribers. This number outstep US which count at 257.89 million by today (the end of April). However, this amount of subscribers still a far away from China with its 550 million subscribers.
In this April, India successfully added 10.16 [...]
April 24th, 2008
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Finally, this is the end of Samsung Lee Kun-hee’s saga.
Samsung Group’s Chairman, Lee Kun-hee finally had decided to resign from his position. Unfortunately, this was happened not because he couldn’t keep his responsibility, yet because the 66 year old Lee was indicted on tax evasion charges. Same old story like most conglomerates faced in his [...]
April 18th, 2008
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2 million ESeries shipped. 10 million NSeries did the same.
Who’s the executive I mean here? Of course it’s you! When I found a 15-long pages PDF report about this I realize that you shouldn’t read it as I did. No, don’t! In fact, I’ll deliver it in summary, just focus on the number. Not the [...]
April 17th, 2008
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Logo of Grameen Phone; Bangladesh largest mobile operator.
Currently, 3GWeek had two posts about Bangladesh. First is about “Vodafone to invest in Bangladesh” and second is about “Sony Ericsson opened exclusive store in Bangladesh “. Now, Reuters bring us one yet other good news, at least for Bangladeshi.
It said that there are about 1.38 million new [...]
