June 19th, 2008
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We all know that China made numerous cheap phone market. So cheap that we even can’t understand how they make profit. A phone with dual GSM-CDMA band with TV capability, multimedia, and great connectivity can be bought with less than US$ 250 in price tag. Can you imagine if they enter Japan’s sophisticated market and [...]
June 16th, 2008
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Starhub claimed to be the first network operator to bring this service in Asia. Well, probably they are right. In my country, Indonesia, offering Live Messenger with Yahoo messenger is not an impressive movement since most of Indonesian are not yet familiar with Live Messenger.
But like most of Singaporeans have already know, Microsoft Windows Live [...]
June 14th, 2008
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On May 7th, in one of my post entitled “Complete Review on HTC Touch Diamond“, I had to assumed that this Windows Mobile 6.1-powered device will cost you between US$500 - $700. Before contract.
But now, I am going to tell you all that I had made a mistakes. Just a little slipped though. The HTC [...]
June 13th, 2008
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Next Sharp’s sharp target are India and Indonesia
Yoshisuke Hasegawa, group general manager of Sharp’s communication systems group as reported by Reuters said to reporters in China that they want to expand their cellphone business to India and Indonesia as well. Not only in China!
Wow, this is a big news. At least for me an Indonesian. [...]
June 13th, 2008
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The Sharp Aquos 920-SH Series is a flagship mobile phone!
Obviously, Sharp is pretty clever. As a new player in China, this Japanese seems don’t want to fight with Nokia and Samsung in low-end cheaper cellphone league. Indeed, they will targeting their cellphone for wealthy yet small audience there.
Priceless lesson should have been taken by Sharp [...]
June 8th, 2008
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This must be another clever way made by Singaporean. ST Telemedia, telecom company owned by Temasek holding, agreed to sell all their shares in Indosat (NYSE: IIT, IDX: ISAT) to Middle East’s Qatar Telecom. The transaction, involving 40.8% shares of second largest Indonesian telecommunication company, valued US$ 1.8 billion in total.
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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 5th, 2008
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For those living in mobile world, cellphone is one gadget we must have. For communicate with others we require reliable call and SMS connection. Not only that, technology has enabled to use the power of email and Instant Messenger with our phone keypad. Well, business phone (like Nokia Eseries or Blackberry) has integrated the email [...]
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 [...]
June 2nd, 2008
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Indonesia’s newest GSM and 3G’s operator, AXIS, launches today the new prepaid tariff for data usage: Rp0.1 per Kb for the first 10 Mb every day. The company claims that this is a revolutionary step for the country’s data services, emphasizing that this price is 90% cheaper than the existing tariff offered by other providers.
Prepaid [...]
