3GWeek - Asia’s Mobile News

Hello, we are back again with weekly roundup for period 1 - 7 September 2008. After missing 2 cycles , we are trying to give you the roundup of what happen in gadget world during the week. Anyway, we would like to say happy fasting for everyone who celebrate it in this holy month of Ramadhan. Forgive us if we have done something wrong, either typological or not.

Let’s get started. This week we have several news from Sony Ericsson, which already released its TM506 with USA’s T-Mobile and the webcast plan showing the official launching of long awaited Xperia X1. Next, we have number of information about Japanese phones. Indeed, they always make us, the rest of the world, get jealous. Last but not least, the Finn giant is always fill the story. All about Nokia under our coverage. Of course, there are more interesting topic which are too bad to be missed!

Sony Ericsson Fiesta

The Japan-Sweden joint venture has scored for the first time to be covered as our main attraction this week. Started with no delay to be on market, the plan of official launching of Xperia X1, which later to be hold until September 15, the long awaited Sony Ericsson phone has made us spoiled with its beautiful curve sliding form factor.

Other news about the 5th largest mobile manufacture in term of share include the launch of TM506 in collaboration with T-Mobile. The phone will be offered in the USA and the first to implement T-Mobile’s AWS 3G spectrum. Next is F305, the gaming phone, which will pre-load 50 built-in games, like The Sims 2, Pinball, Bowling, etc.

Sony Ericsson’s latest project, Project Capuchin, is on our cover by giving developers API to combine Java 2 ME and Flash Lite support. Last one is the concept phone, created by its own fans about Sony Ericsson’s video phone.

Japanese phones on the move

As Asia’s Mobile News, one of our favorite subject is Japanese phones. Created by those samurai genius, Japanese phones always amaze us by bringing superb sophisticated technology with stylish design. We have:

1. KDDI W64SA: CDMA with color therapy from Kyocera
2. DoCoMo FOMA SH706iw: GSM with Symbian OS from Sharp
3. KDDI au W62PT: CDMA simple phone from Pantech
4. Willcom: Teddy Bear phone concept
5. KDDI: Nintendo DS phone concept

Well, drooling already? Keep drooling since those phones will not be in store near you any soon.

Nokia oh Nokia

Yes, we love Nokia as it always be in our cover story. Everything it created will always be a news. This time, we cover this largest phone manufacturer as:

1. The best mobile brand in Asia Pacific
2. To lower Q3 market share estimation
3. N96 to begin shipping, start with EUR 550
4. Buy Samsung stake at Symbian
5. “Comes with music” campaign

Hungry for more information about this Finn giant? Stay tune!

Other interesting topics

We never forget our basic rules to cover everything in gadget world. Thus, we round it up for you:

1. iPhone: 9 new games from EA
2. TAG Heuer: Meridiist
3. LG: Prada 2.0 with QWERTY, KC910 for 8 megapixels camera
4. HTC: create Palm Treo Pro, Touch Diamond for Sprint
5. Apps: music sync from phone to Mac,
6. Motorola: Q11 still with Win Mobile
7. HP: iPaq 912 in Australia
8. Android: GoCart, one of the ADC winner
9. Samsung: INNOV8 with touchscreen Symbian
10. Chinese phone: rotated camera

That’s all folks! Happy weekend everyone!

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