3GSM Congress 2005 Summary

Feb 17 2005, 2:36am EST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Photo: MobileBurn The 3GSM World Congress ends today in Cannes and the mobile phone industry left us with new phones and new technology to hope for getting in our hands somewhen soon.

The big topics were new, smaller and cheaper 3G phones. Sony Ericsson topped the MP3 player phones trend off with the Sony Walkman Phone announcement. The PDD Helix Phone (photo) was maybe the coolest new concept phone shown.
TV streaming onto mobile phones is supposedly what consumers want. Also HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) or so called 3.5G promisses 14Mbps and more downstream bandwidth (see article on The Register).
On the smartphone front Microsoft stole the spot light with the Peabody phone platform announcement making it easy for mobile phone vendors to produce and offer Windows Mobile based smart phones.
See below a list of all 3GSM news stories we published this week.

3GSM 2005 News:

3GSM: Sony Ericsson Walkman
3GSM: Motorola PEBL V6, SLVR V8 and Black RAZR V3
3GSM: New Sony Ericsson Z800 3G Mobile Phone
3GSM: Sony Ericsson K600 3G Mobile Phone
3GSM: New Nokia 6681 EDGE Imaging Smartphone
3GSM: New Nokia 6680 3G Mobile Phone
3GSM: Trolltech Linux Qtopia Phones Coming
3GSM: New Samsung SGH-Z130, SGH-Z300, SGH-Z500 3G Phones
Microsoft announces Mobile Phone Peabody at 3GSM
3GSM Congress 2005

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