3GSM
3GSM is now Mobile World Congress
The GSMA is rebranding the 3GSM World Congress and its sister event in Asia to Mobile World Congress and Mobile Asia Congress respectively.
Apparently the GSMA wants to broaden the appeal of the show to other industries with the rebranding.
It is not the name of the show that counts, its the attending companies and if the show is seen as a forum to make deals and launch new products.
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Posted on Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:55:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
I4U Gadget Flyer: 3GSM Highlights : CryptoPhone : RIZR Z8 : Nokia N77 : M300
The new !
Last week in review:
his weeks highlights came from the 3GSM 2007 conference in Barcelona. See the hottest mobile device announcements below.
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Posted on Sun, 18 Feb 2007 03:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
MOTOFONE F3 wins 'Best Ultra Low Cost Handset' Award at 3GSM
Motorola announces that the MOTOFONE F3 handset has been recognized by the GSM Association as the "Best Ultra Low Cost Handset - 2007" at the 3GSM World Conference in Barcelona.
Motorola introduced the low-end MOTOFONE last summer. The MOTOFONE F3 deserves this award. Motorola created a very stylish and think low-cost mobile phone that I would not be ashamed of using.
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Posted on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 05:10:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
Toshiba G900 and G500 Windows Smartphones at 3GSM
Toshiba announced at the 3GSM 2007 two Windows Mobile Smartphones: PORTÉGÉ G900 and PORTÉGÉ G500.
Both new Toshiba smartphones feature a fingerprint sensor for access control. This is great for business users, who actually use a pin code to unlock their phone every time they want to use it. Now they just need to touch the phone to get access.
The Windows Mobile 6.0 running Toshiba PORTÉGÉ G900 features a slide out full QWERTY keyboard, 3 inch WVGA screen, Triband, HSDPA, 3G, EDGE, Bluetooth, WiFi and USB connectivity, 2MP camera and a miniSD card slot.
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Posted on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 05:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
3GSM 2007 Highlights and a Disappointment
Yesterday the mobile phone companies tried to top each other with the number of announcements of new mobile devices for the start of the 3GSM 2007 Conference in Barcelona.
The biggest trends is sure HSDPA. A new 3G phone needs to have HSDPA, there is no way around it. It is great that the handset guys already offer HSDPA, where most 3G users are still putting out the champagne to celebrate a decent 3G connection whenever they encounter one. Still if you want a somewhat future proof phone, HSDPA is a must.
In context of this comes actually my biggest disappointment of the 3GSM so far. The new Neonode N2 is not 3G. It also does not have Wi-fi. For Europe this is a no-go for me. Neonode tried to tease us hard, but the new Neonode is not by far as innovative as their first Neonode N1 was back in 2002/2004. Are they now closer to the market with the N2? Sure the Apple iPhone is also just GSM, but Apple can also forget to show up with a GSM iPhone in Europe. For the US this is ok to boot, but a 3G iPhone needs to come soon there too. I see the only chance for the new Neonode N2 to get a US carrier deal quickly that wants to offer a smaller and hopefully cheaper alternative to the Apple iPhone.
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Posted on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 01:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
Microsoft announces Live and PlayReady for Mobile Phones at 3GSM
Microsoft announced along with the Windows Mobile 6.0 platform new Windows Live features for mobile phones and a media platform for mobile devices called PlayReady at the 3GSM 2007 in Barcelona.
Live Search for Windows Mobile and Live Search for Java provide customers with advanced local search and mapping capabilities on their mobile device. In conjunction with the availability of Windows Mobile 6, Microsoft also introduced Windows Live for Windows Mobile to search emails, IMs and files on your Windows Smartphone.
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Posted on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 11:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
Motorola announces MOTOKRZR K3 HSDPA Phone at 3GSM 2007
Motorola announces the KRZR K3 with HSDPA at the 3GSM 2007.
Features of the MOTOKRZR K3 include 2 inch display with QVGA 320x240, 2MP digital camera, MPEG4 Video Capture and Playback, Email: POP3, SMTP, IMAP4, 50MB of end user memory, Audio/Video streaming (3GPP), microSD slot for upgradeable memory and enhanced voice recognition.
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Posted on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 05:10:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
New Samsung SGH-i600 and SGH-i520 at 3GSM 2007
Samsung announces the SGH-i520 and SGH-i600 smartphones at the 3GSM 2007.
The Samsung Ultra Messaging i600 (photo) is a HSDPA smartphone that is only 11.8mm thin and weighs a mere 105g.
Features of the Windows smartphone include 2.3 inch screen with QVGA resolution, full QWERTY keyboard, microSD card slot, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.
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Posted on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 05:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
New Samsung Ultra Edition II U700, U600, U300 and U100 at 3GSM
Samsung announces new ultra thin mobile phones at the 3GSM 2007 in Barcelona. The new New Samsung Ultra Edition II line includes Ultra Edition 10.9 (U600), Ultra Edition 12.1 (U700), Ultra Edition 9.6 (U300) metallic clamshell and the candy bar handset Ultra Edition 5.9 (U100), which is supposedly now the World's Slimmest Mobile Phone.
All new Samsung Ultra Edition II phones feature Samsung’s Optimized Power Usage Solution (OPUS), which is increasing talk time by 10%, power saving by 30% and battery capacity by 10%.
The Samsung U600 and U700 sliders coming in a choice of colors which includes sapphire blue, garnet red, platinum metal and copper gold. Features of the new slim sliders include 2.22" wide TFT LCD, 3.2MP camera and HSDPA 3.6 Mbps data transfer speed (U700 only). The U700 is 12.1mm thin and the U600 is only 10.9mm.
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Posted on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 01:49:49 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
Microsoft Windows Mobile 6 Smartphone Software Revealed at 3GSM 2007
Now Microsoft officially announced the new Windows Mobile 6 version. The new Microsoft smartphone OS did already leak a couple of days ago, but now all the official information about the update is available.
This is not a mind blowing new release and rather a solid update with lots of improvements and Windows Vista support.
New features in Windows Mobile 6 include rich HTML e-mail, increased functionality within Microsoft Office Outlook Mobile and Office Mobile programs, and improved security and device management for IT managers.
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Posted on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 01:15:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
Possio GRETA GSM Fax and Printer Debuts at 3GSM 2007
The Possio Great features a built-in Siemens GSM module with triple band support and you can print and scan to and from PC via an USB connection. Measurements are 290mm / 11.4inches x 150mm/ 5.9inches x 50mm / 2inches.
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Posted on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 00:10:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
I4U Gadget Flyer: Samsung F700 : GSM Watch M300 : Cellular-Book at 3GSM
The new !
Last week in review:
Samsung amazes us this week with the
Ultra Smart F700 smart phone.
The GSM wristwatch phone
m300 is also on its way from Australia and will hit the market
finally on March 25th.
The coming week will be huge for mobile phone news as the 3GSM 2007 conference is going to take place in Barcelona.
See all top stories for the past week below.
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Posted on Sun, 11 Feb 2007 04:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
HTC X7500 Viral Teasing before 3GSM 2007
Looks like HTC is trying hard to promote their new HTC X7500 aka HTC Athena before they unveil it at the 3GSM 2007 conference.
We received a tip from David about the site seehtc.com where you see some teaser photos of the X7500 followed by a countdown timer that currently stands at 7 days.
msmobiles reports about a rather crapy viral marketing video that HTC put on Youtube. The short skid is about two guys stealing a HTC X7500 demo unit from the HTC offices in London. The only cool scene in this video is at the end when one guy is opening the X7500 and sticks it back together.
The only big issue with this whole marketing effort of HTC is that its partners like T-Mobile already announced the HTC Athena. T-Mobile releases it under the name Ameo in Europe.
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Posted on Mon, 5 Feb 2007 09:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
New Neonode at the 3GSM 2007
Neonode annouced a small touch screen phone already back in 2002. The Neonode N1 made it then finally onto the European market in November of 2004. As you know touch screen phones are all the hype now with the Apple iPhone and the Prada Phone.
Update:
Neonode N2 Announced
Now Swedish Neonode is apparently coming out with a new Neonode phone. At least this is what the homepage of the Neonode site is saying. They try to be funny with a pregnancy spiel, which does not resonate with me at all.
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Posted on Fri, 2 Feb 2007 09:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
3GSM 2006: LG KG920 Twisting 5MP Camera Phone
Korean LG shows off the KG920 5MP camera mobile phone at the 3GSM 2006 conference.
The LG KG920 is 18mm thin and features a twisting design that lets users rotate the lens by 180 degrees. Other features of the 5MP GSM camera phone are Auto focus, miniSD card slot, 2 inch QVGA screen, USB and Bluetooth.
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Posted on Wed, 15 Feb 2006 02:55:55 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
3GSM 2006: UTStarcom Shows World's First Plug-In Mobile Phone Module
FORTUNE 1000 company UTStarcom announced at the 3GSM 2006 their MobileCard technology, which is world's first technology independent, modular mobile phone.
The UTStarcom MobileCard is the size of two SIM cards and less than 3mm thick. With this technology, a regular phone is reduced to a "shell," which typically consists of a housing, keypad, LCD, and speakers. Users can simply insert the module into the "shell" to have a complete phone.
This technology sounds similar to what Willcom is offering in Japan with their PHS W-Sim module.
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Posted on Tue, 14 Feb 2006 12:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
3GSM 2006: Hot Sony Ericsson W950 4GB 3G Walkman Music Phone
Sony Ericsson announces a Walkman music phone supporting UMTS. The Sony Ericsson W950 Walkman phone features 4GB flash memory and a touch screen.
The new Walkman phone is thin, sleek and compact and finished in Mystic Purple, fingerprint-proof matt with orange accents.
With the 4GB flash storage users can manage up to 4,000 songs. The supplied Disc2Phone music management software is necessary to transfer music files from a PC to the W950. Supported music file format are MP3, AAC, AAC+, E-AAC+, WAV and m4a.
A 2.6 inch QVGA screen presents the rich user interface. Other features of the W950 include FM radio with RDS, Graphical equalizer and Mega Bass, Speakerphone, Bluetooth, USB 2.0 and the full HTML browser Opera 8.
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Posted on Tue, 14 Feb 2006 03:09:25 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
3GSM 2006: NVIDIA GoForce 5500 - Console 3D Gaming for Mobile Phones
NVIDIA announces the GoForce 5500 handheld graphics processing unit (GPU).
The NVIDIA GoForce 5500 is marking the industry’s first handheld GPU to enable true, fluid digital TV, high-fidelity surround sound, rapid multi-shot photography, and console-class 3D graphics.
Features of the GoForce 5500 include playback of H.264, WMV9 and MPEG-4 video up to D1 resolution at 30fps, console-class 3D gaming, surround sound and support of up to 10 megapixel resolution image resolution.
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Posted on Tue, 14 Feb 2006 02:37:39 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
3GSM 2006 Highlights
The 3GSM conference (site) related product announcements dominate the technology news today.
For me the following announcements have been the highlights (See a the list of all 3GSM stories we published today below):
Microsoft finally managing to provide direct push email is a potentially a huge deal. Let’s see if companies will take the bait and adopt the Microsoft way and abandon RIM.
The BenQ-Siemens HSDPA 3G Phone EF91 is a highlight because you can buy one starting already in June.
And third but not least, the DVB-H partnership between Nokia and Sony Ericsson is potentially a big milestone for DVB-H.
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Posted on Mon, 13 Feb 2006 11:27:15 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
3GSM 06: Motorola To Make Microsoft Windows Media Player Phones
Motorola announced that it has signed a deal with Microsoft to use Windows Media player technology on new music phones in 2006.
Motorola will keep the iTunes mobile phones (that nobody wants, due to the Apple induced limitations) in the portfolio, but plans to release Microsoft powered music player handsets.
The Microsoft Windows Media phones will be able to download music over the air, sold by operators, and also directly from a PC.
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Posted on Mon, 13 Feb 2006 08:49:56 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
3GSM 06: Microsoft Direct Push Email for Windows Mobile has Finally Arrived
Microsoft is finally at the point to compete with RIM's Blackberry. Today at the 3GSM they announced support for direct push email and support by several carriers.
Leveraging the integration between Direct Push technology in Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 and Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2), businesses can give their employees push email without the requirement to pay for additional and costly e-mail servers.
Cingular Wireless, Orange, T-Mobile and Vodafone today announced free upgrades to the Messaging and Security Feature Pack (MSFP) for all their Windows Mobile 5.0 customers, enabling Direct Push functionality and providing enhanced device management and security for messaging applications. Palm Inc. and i-Mate also reaffirmed their commitment to free MSFP upgrades.
Newly introduced Windows smartphones with direct push email support include the HP iPAQ hw6900 Mobile Messenger (photo), the Gigabyte Communications g-Smart (offered by Chunghwa Telecom Co. Ltd. in Taiwan), the ASUS P305 3G-enabled smartphone, and the Fujitsu Siemens FS Pocket Loox. HTC will also ship new smart phones in Q2 2006.
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Posted on Mon, 13 Feb 2006 03:45:13 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
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