Tag Archive for ‘Samsung’ at LIRNEasia

Tag Archive for 'Samsung'

Call for papers: Mobile2.0: Beyond voice
Deadline: 31 October 2008.

Trials of 100 Mpbs Mobile Broadband is on track?

on November 12, 2007

The first phase in a trial of an evolved version of today’s mobile phone radio access technology designed to deliver much higher wireless data rates has proven a success.

The LTE / SAE (Long Term Evolution/System Architecture Evolution) Trial Initiative (LSTI) launched in May this year has reported the successful delivery of the first in a series of test results aimed at proving the potential and benefits of LTE, which is being standardized by the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) as a next generation mobile broadband technology.

The Initiative was founded by leading telecommunications companies Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, France Telecom/Orange, Nokia, Nokia Siemens Networks, Nortel, T-Mobile and Vodafone, and was recently expanded with China Mobile, Huawei, LG Electronics, NTT DoCoMo, Samsung, Signalion, Telecom Italia and ZTE joining as…

The days of SMS are numbered?

Chanuka Wattegama

on August 9, 2007

The days of SMS are numbered now that mobile email access is becoming a commodity, research firm Gartner says.

Long the preserve of businessmen in power suits, mobile email is about to hit the masses with one in five email users accessing their accounts wirelessly by 2010, according to Gartner.

Monica Blasso, the firm’s research vice-president, said mobile email had moved beyond the BlackBerry and was increasingly a feature of even low-cost mobile phones, driving consumer adoption.

“By 2012, wireless email products will be fully inter-operable, commoditised and have standard features,” she said. “They will be shipping in larger volumes at greatly reduced prices.”

Today there are less than 20 million wireless email users worldwide, but this will grow to 350 million, or 20 per cent of all email…

3 Comments
Tags: Asher Moses, Australia, cellular telephone, GPS, mobile email devices, mobile phones, Monica Blasso, Motorola, Robin Simpson, Samsung, SMS, wireless email products, wireless email users.

Motorola tops ultra low-cost handset vendor ranking

Abu Saeed Khan

on August 9, 2007

Motorola has been ranked at the top of the latest Vendor Matrix released by ABI Research. Nokia claimed the second spot, while Samsung and LG were ranked equally in third place in the company’s most recent evaluation of ultra low-cost handset vendors worldwide. ABI defines ultra low-cost handset that sells below US$50 in the retail outlets. Read more.

1 Comment
Tags: LG, Motorola, retail outlets, Samsung, USD.

Quite a contrast with LIRNEasia’s research on women’s use of mobiles!

Rohan Samarajiva

on July 4, 2007

The survey below, commissioned by Samsung in the US, contrasts with LIRNEasia’s research on teleuse by women at the Bottom of the Pyramid, still in the process of being written up. Our Pakistan findings, being discussed on a PK focused blog, provide the starkest contrast.

Survey Reveals Important Role Mobile Phones Play in Women’s Lives

“A cell phone does much more than make calls for the Single Mobile Female,” said Randy Smith, vice president of channel marketing for Samsung. “The cell phone is an integral part of the SMF’s life, serving as a pocket-size detective, matchmaker, wing-woman and beyond. It is now officially a girl’s best friend.”

Cellular Singles

* Saved by the bell. More than one out of three SMFs have had a friend call them to interrupt…

5 Comments
Tags: cell phones, cellular telephone, mobile phones, Pakistan, Randy Smith, Samsung, United States.

The Wi-Fi threat to mobile

Rohan Samarajiva

on July 29, 2006

Later this year, T-Mobile plans to test a service that will allow its subscribers to switch seamlessly between connections to cellular towers and Wi-Fi hotspots, including those in homes and the more than 7,000 it controls in Starbucks outlets, airports and other locations, according to analysts with knowledge of the plans. The company hopes that moving mobile phone traffic off its network will allow it to offer cheaper service and steal customers from cell competitors and landline phone companies like AT&T.

“T-Mobile is interested in the replacement or displacement of landline minutes,” said Mark Bolger, director of marketing for T-Mobile. Wi-Fi calling “is one of the technologies that will help us deliver on that promise.”

Major phone manufacturers including Nokia, Samsung and Motorola are offering or plan…

Closed
Tags: AT&T, cellular telephone, Italy, Mark Bolger, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, Starbucks, Wi-Fi.

12 million Ultra Low Cost Handsets Purchased

saeed

on May 3, 2006

http://www.cellular-news.com/story/17101_print.php

The GSM Association recently announced that its Emerging Markets Handset program is exceeding expectations: mobile operators in Bangladesh, China, India, and Russia have already purchased 12 million of its Ultra Low Cost Handsets (ULCH). But will the initiative reach the rest of the three billion unconnected peoples in emerging markets? Under current cost models that is unlikely.

The problem is that even at US$30 the ULCH’s price is too high for at least a billion of this population.

The annual gross per capita income in sub-Saharan Africa is just US$371. It is unrealistic to expect people there to spend 10% of their annual income on a mobile phone. So semiconductor vendors, such as Texas Instruments, Freescale, Philips, and Infineon are continuing to reduce the Bill-of-Materials for ULCH…

3 Comments
Tags: Alan Varghese, Bangladesh, cellular telephone, China, Ericsson, Freescale, GSM, GSM Association, India, Infineon, LG Electronics, Motorola, Nokia, Philips, Russia, Samsung, semiconductor, Sharedphone, software, Sony, South Africa, sub-Saharan Africa, Texas Instruments, Ultra Low Cost Handsets, USD.

LIRNEasia