This phone, manufactured by SMS Australia, claimed as the smallest phone in the world. The M500 watch phone weigh only 60 gram and has 1.5 inch screen with 120 x 160 pixel. Australia is not really known as phone maker. This must be a big leap for Australian manufacturer.

Posted by Amir Karimuddin on October 27th, 2007 1 Comment »

Geekzone reported a very interesting statictic on cellular industry milestones. Mobile phone industry has become a spectacular industry: it took 20 years to reach 1 billion connections, three years to reach 2 billion connections and is on target to reach its third billion in a period of just over two years. According to estimates from Wireless Intelligence, a venture between market intelligence firm Ovum and the GSM Association, the total number of cellular connections in the world will reach 2.5 billion, having passed through the 2 billion mark just 12 months ago, "The cellular industry took 20 years to reach 1 billion connections, three years to reach 2 billion connections and is on target to reach its third billion in ...

Posted by Budi Putra on September 10th, 2006 No Comments »

The country's largest cellular operator, PT Telkomsel, launched its third-generation (3G) service yesterday, marking the first commercial introduction of 3G to Indonesia. "Today marks the start of a new era in the world of Indonesian cellular telecommunications," said Telkomsel president director Kiskenda Suriahardja. During the kick-off ceremony, Telkomsel signed contracts for network deployment with vendors Nokia and Ericsson, and will do so later with Siemens, to support the rollout of Telkomsel's 3G network. Telkomsel also signed collaboration agreements with 4 initial content providers -- SCM, Metro TV, Bizcom and Elasitas -- in order to provide a large selection of content through live mobile TV services, video-on-demand streaming and video downloading. Link

Posted by Budi Putra on August 16th, 2006 1 Comment »

We know that GSM technology is a sort of open standard technology -- just like Linux in computer world. And we consider its competitor, CDMA, as a propietry technology, which always deal with royalty, patent rights or something like that . That is why, so far, Qualcomm -- the owner of CDMA technology -- has been portrayed as the bad guy, as it has come under fire for its royalty charges and licensing policies from Nokia, Broadcom and others in anti-trust complaints and patent suits. But now, Qualcomm was not alone. A GSM guy already joined the club! Ericsson is getting just as aggressive, suing Samsung over use of essential GSM, GPRS and EDGE patents. Like ...

Posted by Budi Putra on August 9th, 2006 No Comments »

Internet cell phones sales remain robost and are increasing daily as customer are feeling at ease ordering cell phones on line and thereby saving time and money. Trends in cell phone sales are announced and logged at http://www.westerncell.com/ "Great Eight" cell phones sales. The most popular/best selling cell phones are featured on their front page. There are four new cell phones added to the "great eight" list of hot selling cell phones and of course, four drop off the list. The Motorola Cingular pink RARZ and Motorola Cingular black cell phones continue to be hottest cell phones on the market and will once again hold the number one and two spots. Added ...

Posted by Budi Putra on May 19th, 2006 5 Comments »

For those who want to enjoy 2006 World Cup beginning June 6 in your handset, you may choose a new release of LG Electronic mobile phone, LG-U900. This phone supports the digital video broadcasting handheld (DVB-H) standard, exclussively to Italian mobile telecommunications service provider, Hutchison. The provider has exclusive DVB-H broadcasting rights for the 2006 World Cup. Supporting UMTS network, LG's new LG-U900 DVB-H handset features a 2.2-inch 'wide-swing' screen for mobile TV viewing, 1.3 mega-pixel Camera, 55 MB internal user memory and external 512MB transflash, internal antenna (3G/GPRS), antenna(DVB-H). But are you sure to watch video footage of all World Cup matches in your cell phone? ...

Posted by Budi Putra on April 30th, 2006 No Comments »

Nokia High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) is a cost-effective, high performance solution that helps operators tackle the challenges of providing high speed, quality services with optimized cost of delivery, a senior director Nokia Networks told in a business meeting in Jakarta, Indonesia. Speaking before Synovate Business Consulting - Breakfast Meeting 2006 in Hotel Mulia today, Arjun Trivendi, Account Director Nokia Networks explained that today's mobile subscribers are a sophisticated crowd - looking beyond just voice and basic messaging, they want high quality music downloads, streamed video and higher speed connectivity to mobile office and the Internet. In a new report, mobile industry body The UMTS Forum forecasts that there will be almost one billion active users of HSPA networks by ...

Posted by Budi Putra on April 27th, 2006 No Comments »

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 ...

Posted by Budi Putra on April 15th, 2006 No Comments »