South Korea’s LG Electronics Inc. has unveiled a 3G music phone equipped with Bluetooth, the company said in a statement Tuesday (April 18). The WCDMA-enabled LG-U890 phone provides Bluetooth stereo audio for higher fidelity compared with the mono audio used in other Bluetooth 3G phones, said LG in a statement. The phone measures 18.5 mm thick and has a 70-megabyte internal memory for MP3. A button on the outside of the clamshell controls the MP3 function. An integrated 1.3 megapixel rotating camera with flash can take pictures without having to open the clamshell. The phone also has a 2.2-in. wide LCD screen. Starting this month, the LG-U890 will be available through the global telecommunications service carrier Hutchison in ...

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Nokia hatched the Nseries as an elite brigade of 3G multimedia virtuosos. So elite in fact, that with the exception of the popular N70, getting your hands on these ‘multimedia computers’ has proved problematic. The N90 didn’t even get picked up officially by a network operator. Its 4GB-hard-drive-packing musical sibling, the N91, hasn’t yet hit the shops despite being unveiled just under a year ago. And the N92 TV handset won’t even make it to UK shores because we don’t yet support Digital Video Broadcast for Handheld (DVB-H) technology. Nokia has gone on record declaring that the Nseries is an exercise in chest thumping and concept building, showing just how high mobile technology can reach, but these ...

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The number of GSM mobile users in Latin America and the Caribbean is expected to grow 50% this year to 180 million compared to 2005, Erasmo Rojas, Latin America and Caribbean director for GSM industry association 3G Americas, told BNamericas. At the end of the first quarter, Latin America recorded nearly 260 million mobile users up from 188 million in 1Q05. Comparing last quarter with the same period a year ago, GSM was the fastest growing technology, increasing its client base by 93%, while CDMA technology grew 37% and TDMA continues to lose subscribers. According to 3G Americas, GSM accounts for 52% of users in Brazil, 59% in Mexico, 74% in Colombia, 56% in Argentina and 53% in Chile. On the other ...

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Sagem Communication unveils the my900C, it’s a hot new multimedia mobile phone. With both EDGE and UMTS technology, Sagem's latest innovation lets you make the most of broadband wherever you are, on whatever network, with the best service quality available. A top-of-the-range mobile phone, the Sagem my900C is a powerhouse of functions guaranteed to appeal to the most technology enthusiasts. Sagem Communication has designed the my900C for all those who wish to make the most of every possible feature of their mobile. Designed to enhance your leisure pursuits, it has a 262,000-color QVGA display (320x240 pixels) giving outstanding image quality. It also has an ingenious external 262,000-color TFT LCD display (96x64 pixels). The Sagem my900C has two ...

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Malaysia's Celcom and Maxis have launched 3G interconnection, enabling interconnect video telephony. By opening access between the two major 3G networks, the 3G user community in Malaysia immediately increased twofold, allowing Celcom's and Maxis' users to make and receive video calls, and send and retrieve video messages among themselves. Both service providers are confident that interconnection will boost take-up and usage of 3G video telephony and video messaging services, as how interconnection did to SMS and to an extent MMS. After interconnection for SMS was established in 2001, usage of text messages almost doubled from 3.6 billion SMS sent in the following year to 6.2 billion SMS sent in 2003. The Celcom-Maxis 3G interconnection was launched after a series of ...

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The number of new mobile phone subscribers of Indonesia's second largest telecoms firm, PT Indosat Tbk, may fall by 8-12 percent in the first quarter of this year from the same period in 2005, its chief said on Monday. However, Hasnul Suhaimi, Indosat's president director, told reporters the company still retained its target of between 3-4 million new users this year. "Subscribers in Q1 2006 were down by 8-12 percent compared with the previous year period," Suhaimi said, refering to the company's new mobile phone users. He did not elaborate further. By the end of 2005, Indosat , 42 percent owned by Singapore's ST Telemedia, had 14.4 million mobile phone customers out of a total of 45 million mobile phone users in ...

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From revolutionising the dating game to bringing people closer together and spawning new street trends, 3G is changing the way we think, behave and communicate. Generation HERE is the first publication to investigate the impact of 3G on peoples’ everyday lives to reveal a whole new world of social and cultural interaction. 3G is changing the way we flirt: thanks to photographs, video and GPS, the new generation of handsets have become social and romantic catalysts. Far from breeding a generation of text-obsessed loners, in Japan, for example, girls take photos of themselves with the object of their desire and use it as a calling card. In Australia, singles scan bars for other Bluetooth users, then and arrange to meet them ...

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Axalto announced that it has launched the first third generation CDMA User Identification Module (UIM) commercial card in Japan with KDDI. The Axalto cards are designed to work together with KDDI’s CDMA 2000 EV-DO third generation mobile handsets. With the Axalto UIM card, KDDI offers increased transaction security, and delivers portability ease for Japanese mobile users. KDDI subscribers can now access both GSM and CDMA networks with just one card, and users will be able to use the same telephone number both domestically and internationally. [3G!] Read more: Wireless Design Asia

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The number of 3G (third-generation) mobile subscribers is expected to grow quickly in China, despite getting off to a relatively slow start, according to a telecommunications research firm in Beijing. China will have 5.5 million 3G subscribers within the first 12 months that these services are available, according to Norson (Hong Kong) Information Technology, in Beijing. That number will grow quickly, rising to 21.9 million by the end of the second year and hitting 84.2 million by the end of the third year, Norson said. China is the world's largest market for mobile services, with more than 404 million subscribers at the end of February, according to China's Ministry of Information Industry. For now, these subscribers must be content with 2G (second-generation) mobile ...

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Nokia yesterday introduced a 3G handset, the 6280, to the mid-range market in Taiwan. The new slide phone, which offers a 2-megapixel camera, Bluetooth, MiniSD memory card and flash light, will be priced at NT$16,800 (US$519). :: Photo: Jeremy Huang, DigiTimes

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