Motorola, who the sales is decreasing everyday, is trying to regain its position back. They plan to launch 20-30 handsets in 2008. Stated by Bill Chen, newly appointed Motorola Taiwan General Manager of mobile device business, Motorola aimed to re-capture the lead position in the Taiwan handset market.

Posted by Amir Karimuddin on November 22nd, 2007 No Comments »

Sony Ericsson and RIM, yesterday announced its new agreement. They agree to bundle Blackberry Connect software 4.0 into Sony Ericsson P1i in Asia Pacific. The tools will be preloaded in Australia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand.

Posted by Amir Karimuddin on November 22nd, 2007 No Comments »

Taiwan's phone manufacturer, HTC, has announced to make phone for Google's Android platform. It is expected to be launched in Europe by second half of 2008. The focus of this Android is more to Internet experience than just make a call.

Posted by Amir Karimuddin on November 9th, 2007 4 Comments »

Taiwan is one of a few countries in the world which was ready to develop WiMAX. Reuters wrote that Taiwan decided to invest US$664 million over the next few years, as it agreed to work with five major manufacturers to develop that technology.

Posted by Budi Putra on October 22nd, 2007 1 Comment »

China is moving forward as the world's fastest growing mobile phone makers. China's share of total shipments reached approximately 50% of the world's mobile phone shipments.

Posted by Budi Putra on October 4th, 2007 No Comments »

Everything about Apple's iPhone was always interesting...

Posted by Budi Putra on August 13th, 2007 No Comments »

3G handsets have potential market in the region. Asustek Computer will begin to ship two 3G handsets to O2 Asia Pacific this month, followed by Quanta Computer and Arima Communications, which will each ship a 3G device to the company, according to market sources. The two models from Asustek are the O2 Xda Zinc PDA phone and the O2 Graphite smartphone, with both models featuring Xscale processors from Marvell and a 2-megapixel built-in camera, said the sources. Quanta will deliver the Atom Life PDA phone to O2 Asia. The Atom Life is a successor to O2's Atom and Atom Exec handsets and is able to support high speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) technology, the sources noted, adding that the Atom Life features a ...

Posted by Budi Putra on February 2nd, 2007 No Comments »

Is there any problem in charging 3G services? This is one of the best solutions The BSS/OSS software vendor, Intec and Huawei say they have successfully implemented Intec's Mediation solution for Asia Pacific Broadband Wireless ("APBW"), a CDMA 2000 operator in Taiwan, within three months. Established in November 2001, APBW won its 3G mobile operating license and successfully introduced Taiwan`s first CDMA cellular service in 2003. In this project, the Intec implementation team worked closely with the Huawei project team in defining customer requirements. The new convergent mediation platform was commissioned to collect, mediate and distribute all revenue records from the newly installed Huawei MSC to APBW's existing billing platform, interconnect billing platform, data warehouse and fraud management systems. Huawei acted as ...

Posted by Budi Putra on June 6th, 2006 No Comments »

Taiwanese ODM Compal Communications Inc. (CCI) is developing a 3G cellular videophone/PDA running Windows Mobile 5.0, according to Radvision, the supplier of a 3G-324M protocol toolkit to CCI. The new 3G handheld will include an "advanced" video application that lets users subscribe to video conferences and participate in video communities, Radvision says. CCI's new 3G PDA/videophone will be based on an Intel PXA270 XScale processor, according to Radvision. The company says it developed the CCI videophone application using its 3G-324M Toolkit, in collaboration with both Microsoft and Intel. The toolkit includes APIs for 3G-based multimedia communication devices. [3G!] Source

Posted by Budi Putra on April 20th, 2006 No Comments »

Chunghwa Telecom (CHT), the largest telecom operator in Taiwan, yesterday started marketing in Taiwan a co-branded version of the Nokia 6280 3G handset manufactured to its specifications, according to CHT sources. To boost its penetration in the 3G segment, CHT will launch more co-branded 3G handsets, with a model to come from Asustek Computer in May, and a PDA phone and a smartphone from High Tech Computer (HTC) in June, the sources said. A co-branded 3G handset displays CHT’s corporate logo on the front side of the handset, while the name of the contract maker appears on the back side of the device, the sources noted. Contract makers may require a minimum order of up to 100,000 units for each customized handset, market ...

Posted by Budi Putra on April 19th, 2006 No Comments »