Manufacturer updates

GT ---- replaces SGH --- with Many New Samsung Models if you are looking for a new Samsung please check the code. We have been receiving request for model SGH-0000 when Samsung is now using GT-0000 the SGH-000 are still correct and active...

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Many of our members - especially the ones active in the Indian, Middle East, and African markets are beginning to distribute low cost Chinese Manufactured handsets. We think that there is a good business case here as on the one hand the end user is getting a lot more features for his money, and on the other hand, the sales margin is somewhat higher than handsets from the tier 1 manufacturers. Obviously, great care needs to be taken in selecting the supplier, in order to ensure that the quality, reliability as well as all the certifications correspond to expectations. This is another story.. but more on that at a later time.

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Or so it seems, given the code names that Motorola is baptizing its latest newborn. After Alexander, details of which has been leaked last week, the Motorola Atila is a Windows-Mobile based handset that like the iPhone has no keyboard.

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Kyocera has struck a deal with SANYO to buy their mobile phone business. The agreement is planned to become effective April 1, 2008.

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Nokia has recently moved to India manufacturing mobile phones for the global market. In fact with 77% of their market share, generated in India alone, Nokia is comfortably settled down south in Bangalore, the technology hub of the sub continent.

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Motorola has been floundering for the past 6 months; handset sales for Q1 of '07 were 15% down, and it has incurred an operating loss of US$ 231 Million. All this, while Nokia and Sony Ericsson are enjoying healthy profits on the back of successful handset ranges.

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A few days ago Motorola and Nokia posted their Quarterly results; contrasting situations indeed. On the one hand Nokia gained 1.1% more market share vs. a year ago; Motorola lost 4.5%!

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Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications L.P. announced that Sagem Communications will produce S/E branded low cost mobile phone handsets.

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The company's insolvency administrator have emailed out a statement, in which he declares that attempts to sell off the business as a whole has failed. The last potential buyer has pulled out of the negotiations.

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Nokia new chief Olli Pekka Kallasvuo provides some insight into the future direction of his company.

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Nokia has just announced new editions to their extensive range of models, with the estimated release in 2007 of the Nokia 6300, 6290, 6086 and the Nokia 2626 which will be directly aimed at consumers in entry markets such as that of India and China.

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A recent report by Asian analysts claims that the computer giants Apple have ordered 12 million i-Phones to be made by a Taiwanese manufacturer, for possible release in the Spring of 2007.

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According to Peng Lim, CEO of MTI Micro Fuel Cells, the traditional power of cellular handsets and accessories sources, such as lithium batteries, cannot continue to keep pace with commercial desires to incorporate media-rich features in the next generation of consumer electronic devices.

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Ultra-low cost handsets to become even more affordable

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