Tuesday 30 December

New freeware: IrDA keyboard driver for 3650

New freeware: IrDA keyboard driver for P800

Sony Ericsson has begun trials on a multiplayer mobile gaming system that will allow up to eight players to compete in real-time

Tuesday 23 December

Vodafone delays Microsoft move

Friday 19 December

NTT DoCoMo said it would provide $344 million to makers of handsets for its third-generation (3G) FOMA service to support development

Wednesday 17 December

Toshiba readies tiny, coin-size hard disk that can be used to store music and video in mobile phones and other portable gadgets

Tuesday 16 December

Wireless Phone Good Vibrations

The Ugliest 3G Phone

Thursday 11 December

No longer just for businesses, push-to-talk phones are heading your way

Wednesday 10 December

Nokia Plans VOWLAN Move

Rumors Detail First LG Symbian Device

Telenor becomes sole owner of Sonofon in Denmark

Monday 8 December

No Microsoft for NTT DoCoMo 3G handsets

2nd N-Gage title from Nokia

Friday 5 December

Hold On, My Taco Is Ringing

Tuesday 2 December

Delayed GNER Wi-Fi train trial steams out

Friday 28 November

New freeware: Lemonade Tycoon(trial)

Thursday 27 November

Orange goes with PacketVideo

Tuesday 25 November

The Lines Are Busy as Cellphone Clients Switch

Monday 24 November

Nokia redefines addressable market - targets EUR 200 billion opportunity

Nokia Names Mary T. McDowell to Head Enterprise Solutions

Dow Jones Press Release: Jorma Ollila named European Business Leader of the Year 2003

Thursday 20 November

Symbian Limited Q3 2003 results - 1.23m phones shipped

Wednesday 19 November

FCC allocates largely unusable spectrum to US rural wi-fi

i-mode goes to Italy

Tuesday 18 November

New study by Test-Aankoop confirms safety of Nokia batteries

Throwing away the fixed line phone brings major business benefits and savings

Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 2004 will be released for the N-Gage

Saturday 15 November

Motorola stomps on A920 patch

Thursday 13 November

Camera phone makers obliged to install audible warnings on handsets to preserve privacy

Euro 472 Million 3G Services Contract

Wednesday 12 November

Nokia 5140 unveiled -press release

Nokia 5140 product page

Tuesday 11 November

N-Gage Cracked

ARCchart estimates that Nokia will be responsible for 71 percent of all Symbian license sales in 2003

Petition: make Symbian OS available for Netbook Pro. It's strange that Psion Teklogix doesn't use it's "own" operating system.

Sunday 9 November

Nokia considers Psion takeover? (the newspaper quoted an unnamed industry source).

Sony Ericsson chief sees tight components market

Friday 7 November

Opera browser will be included in Nokia 6600, BenQ P30 and Sendo X

New freeware: FastConverter for P800

Thursday 6 November

Microsoft's mobile exec leaves firm

Cisco smashes estimates

Orange unveil SPV 2020

Motorola licenses RealOne Player for handsets

Have you been bluejacked?

QUALCOMM integrated UMTS and A-GPS into one chip

Nokia demonstrates world's first dual stack IPv4/IPv6 CDMA handset

Wednesday 5 November

Nortel to test public WLAN architecture with BT and MIT

Over 3000 of P800 owners have signed up for a petition asking Sony Ericsson to release UIQ 2.1 update to their handsets

Monday 3 November

BT spends big money on advertising its return to the mobile arena

Thursday 30 October

Fastrax announced a new distribution and sales representation agreement with Headline Information & Communication Ltd.

Spain to launch first pre-commercial UMTS service

Wednesday 29 October

Digia continues to grow in the Symbian OS based smartphone development market

The Sweet XML of Mobile Success

Nokia: Operators upping 3G investments

Nokia 7700 (Symbian Series 90 media device) product page / press release

Nokia 6230 (EDGE, camera, radio, MP3, memory card) product page / press release

Nokia 7200 (clamshell phone, EDGE, camera) product page

Nokia 6820 (full keyboard, EDGE, camera) product page

Nokia 6810 (full keyboard, EDGE, radio) product page

New Developer Platform for Series 90

Nokia launches push-to-talk over cellular network products

Saturday 25 October

Nokia 7700 press release

Nokia 6230 press release

Nokia planning new handsets next week?

Nokia to unwrap new Communicator?

Nokia 12 GSM module to make wireless M2M integration faster and easier

Tuesday 21 October

Sony Ericsson P900 Product Page

Sony Ericsson unveils the P900 -press release

Sony Ericsson unveils the T630 camera phone -press release

3 users find a way around 'software lock-in'

Siemens MC60 camera phone

Sendo Unveils New Symbianphone: The Sendo X
Some Specs: Camera with flash, GPRS, MMS, JAVA, MP3 player, IrDA, Bluetooth, USB.

Size Comparison:

Sunday 19 October

New freeware: Musbel Tetris for P800

Friday 17 October

Nextel adds record 646K new subs in 3Q

Kyocera resumes shipment of 'exploding' phone

Nokia recommends using only original batteries with Nokia products

Wednesday 15 October

Nokia expected to beat 3Q forecasts

SonyEricsson edges into the black

Java perks up wireless market

Tuesday 14 October

ARM Wrestles With New Chips

Friday 10 October

Elcoteq and Marconi sign a manufacturing agreement

GSM top mobile technology of the Americas

Camera phone market to soar - report

Thursday 9 October

In addition to better screen and keyboard, standby time seems to be slightly better in the 3660

Nokia today launched a phone based on its 3650 model: Nokia 3660/3620

Nokia launches new mobile developer training program in Europe and North America

Wednesday 8 October

New Tool to Find a Wi-Fi ZONE™ With Your WAP-Enabled Cell Phone

Nokia's N-Gage gamble gains mixed reaction

Monday 6 October

SonyEricsson P900 pics & information

Friday 3 October

BenQ Symbian phone delayed until 2004

Picsel Powers BenQ P30

Crackers have broken into GPRS billing

Wednesday 1 October

Defense contractor introduces Symbian security trio

Nokia 3660 (!) information by FCC

Tuesday 30 September

So Why Isn't It Wi-Fi?

Tele2 increases its Russian investments

DoCoMo Sees Symbian Synergies for New FOMA Phones

Friday 26 September

Symbian signs development agreement with Japanese NTT DoCoMo

Nokia takes the next step in structuring its organization

Fonix Joins Symbian Platinum Program

Thursday 25 September

Nokia 7600 develops a new design statement for mobility

Nokia 7600 product page

Nokia Imagewear products, unique displays of personality

Color for everyone - Siemens mobile launches the great value A60

A cool looking mobile phone for messaging fans - the new Siemens C62

TI's Omap Chip to Power BenQ P30

PalmSource to build smart phone OS

NVIDIA Introduces First Megapixel Handheld Media Processor

Wednesday 24 September

T-Mobile USA launches N-Gage

Wireless devices meet television

Nextel continues legal tit-for-tat with Verizon Wireless

Tuesday 23 September

Nokia today announced N-Gage(TM) Mobile Game Deck Game Battle 2003 - A competition for game developers

Nokia and Visa EU work together to take mobile payments to a new level

Monday 22 September

Logitech's Mobile Bluetooth Headset Offers Extended Talk Time - Up to eight hours

Nokia 6600 information by FCC

New freeware: Emu48E for P800 by David Carson

New freeware: Emu48E for 9210 by David Carson

Friday 19 September

TI's new 802.11a/b/g Solution Already Designed into Cell Phones Being Introduced in 2nd Half 2004

Renesas Technology And Nazomi Partner To Deliver Java-Enabled Application Processor Solutions

Asperation showcased two new product prototypes, a speaker and a microphone, both of which can be integrated into the casing of a mobile phone

Thursday 18 September

Wavecom Joins Symbian Platinum Program

Wednesday 17 September

Pointsec Mobile Technologies and F-Secure Enters Into a Strategic Partnership – taking Pointsec mobile security solutions one step further by including the fast growing Symbian platform and offering F-Secure Antivirus and Content protection solutions

Monday 15 September

Emblaze wins mobile services contract in Portugal

Turn your mobile into a speakerphone

Motorola/Microsoft Alliance officially announced - Motorola unveiled MPx200 with Microsoft Windows Mobile

Friday 12 September

GSM/GPRS/EDGE phone Nokia 3200 released -->

Nokia 3200 product page

Hands-On: The Nokia N-Gage

TDMA phone Nokia 6560 released

CDMA phone Nokia 6225 released

Thursday 11 September

Motorola Tapped To Extend China Unicom’s Location Based Services Network With A-GPS

Europeans Love Cameraphones

Motorola also introduces miniature A-GPS module

Wednesday 10 September

Fastrax unveils low-power GPS chip with A-GPS support

Intel unveils new CPU for EDGE mobile networks

Tuesday 9 September

Datamonitor: The number of PWLAN 'hotspots' in the world is set to quadruple within the next three years.

Giants Complete PTT "walkie-talkie" Spec

The PAN vs. WAN Struggle

Slow, stupid networks sometimes win race

J-Phone to change name to Vodafone K.K.

Monday 8 September

Mobiles to replace handheld PCs

Broadcom Ships World's First Single-Chip Wi-Fi Solution

Mobile pictures around the world

Sony Ericsson plans a January launch for its 3G phone Z1010

Sunday 7 September

New freeware: Flexible Camera by YaOO

New freeware: Wi-Send by Small Device

Friday 5 September

Microsoft to sell operating system to Motorola

Thursday 4 September

N-Gage Gets Second Look

Wednesday 3 September

SonyEricsson Z600 phone press release

SonyEricsson Z200 phone press release

SonyEricsson T230 phone press release

SonyEricsson Gameboard EGB-10 (game controller) and Bluetooth CAR-100 (small race-car) press release

Sony Ericsson HBH-200 (Bluetooth handsfree) press release

Siemens SX1 has been pushed back to November?

"3" Locks Down Motorola A920 to Head Off Hackers

IMS@vantage - First commercial release of the Siemens IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS)

MyOrigo and Mobiltron sign multimillion Euro agreement

Tuesday 2 September

Moblogging - The next thing in blogging

ZDNET: Motorola A920 first look

Monday 1 September

Cellphones will sport Wi-Fi

Friday 29 August

...And pull out of Symbian

Motorola announced the arrival of 3G Symbian phone – the A920

Pornographic videos are coming to phones

Wednesday 27 August

Nokia 1100 phone press release

Product page

Nokia 2300 phone press release

Product page

Electronic Arts to develop titles for Nokia N-Gage(TM) mobile game deck

Tuesday 26 August

MIT Technology Review has published explanation of systems used for mobile location based services

AgileMobile.com Launches Instant Messenger

Monday 25 August

It's final: Nortel to set up Partner's 3G network

Motorola unveils first Linux smart phone

Friday 22 August

Is this the new SonyEricsson T620?

Symbian get virtual keyboards

Canesta , Inc.

Thursday 21 August

Sierra Quests on Series 60 (Nokia 7650/3650 and others) and on Nokia Communicator 9210/9290!

Symbian OS shipments reach 2.68 million

Global handheld device shipments decline to 11.35 million

Wednesday 20 August

New freeware: Azure by Michael Gratton

New freeware: VS Httpd by David Carson

GSL unveils its Xplore G18 Smartphone

Nokia reveals the N-Gage Arena service

Nokia to acquire Sega.com

TheFeature.com Relaunch Deepens Coverage of the Mobile Internet

Tuesday 19 August

Cell Phone/Data 'Converged' Devices About To Overtake PDAs

Monday 18 August

Financial services on the go seen as a market with unlimited potential

Dual-CPU cell phone from Legend

Friday 15 August

Software tool steals data via Bluetooth

Orange offers information concerning the upcoming Sony Ericsson P810 on its French web site

Microsoft-Intel phone to launch soon

Monday 11 August

Taito brings rich game content for Nokia N-Gage

Quanta ships Siemens-branded camera phones for T-Mobile

The brains behind the PDA

Sunday 10 August

Download demos from the Assembly mobile compo

Saturday 9 August

Get the latest Assembly news to your J2ME mobile phone

Friday 8 August

Why Headsets look so dumb?

Wednesday 6 August

Smart phones sales triple worldwide

GPS gadgets not lost on their users

MI International, has announced the launch of its innovative mobile phone location service exclusively through The Carphone Warehouse

Tuesday 5 August

NVIDIA Announces Acquisition of MediaQ, Inc., the leading provider of graphics and multimedia technology for wireless mobile devices.

Monday 4 August

Bluephone is BT's secret weapon

Friday 1 August

Mobile phone shipments boom

Thursday 31 July

Firms 'banned' from Iraq mobile bids

Turkish Family Ordered to Pay Over $4 Billion to Motorola

European wireless content worth over US$11 billion in 2006

Vodafone has signed up 25,000 subscribers for its Vodafone Live service - Users are finally warming to new mobile data applications?

Motorola releases 31 new phones in the second half!

CPS and SiRF Partner to Explore Future Mobile Location Technologies

Tuesday 29 July

Ericsson Connects Again

Europe Is Going Mad for i-mode

Hotspot Report not just lukewarm

Telsim owners claim Swiss victory

The Mobile Industry Processor Interface (MIPI) Alliance, a new industry initiative that will define and promote open standards for interfaces to mobile application processors, was announced today by founding members ARM, Nokia, STMicroelectronics and TI.

Tech Heavyweights Team Up on Mobile Open Standards

Sun Microsystems Joins Khronos Group to Support OpenGL ES

Mobile specs duel for graphics prize

Khronos Group's home page

Monday 28 July

The fourth Mobile Phone Throwing World Championships on Saturday the 23rd of August, 2003 in Savonlinna, Finland

Saturday 26 July

China developing its own standards for next-generation cell phones

Motorola A920 Symbian OS 3G Device Exposed

Future ARM based processors for RISC OS?

Friday 25 July

Siemens SX1, M56, SL56 Released to the USA

Thursday 24 July

Motorola will launch a mobile phone based on Microsoft software later this year

Motorola mobiles get 3D games engine

"More Iraqis would benefit from CDMA2000’s superior rural coverage, high-speed data, and GPS locating" ;)

Wednesday 23 July

Navigation Technologies Joins Symbian Platinum Program

Handheld market returns to high growth in Europe

Chipmakers, Korean carrier back cellular graphics standard

Samsung, Nokia Team on Cell Phone Apps

Monday 21 July

wOzNet - New wireless network technology

Samsung Announces Fastest Mobile CPU (533MHz)

Palm OS looks to voice

Will Wi-Fi Revolutionize the Phone?

The comeback of the mobile Internet

Who cares what operating system a phone uses?

P800 vs. Sidekick

N-Gage will officially go on sale around the world on October 7

Saturday 19 July

m-internet.com joins Symbian Affiliate Partner Program

3G still treated with caution

Thursday 17 July

Nokia continues to gain market share in phones with excellent profitability

Tuesday 15 July

Sony Ericsson reports strong increase in sales and shipments for its two core business areas GSM and Japanese standards

New Wireless Adapter Converges Home Networking and Consumer Electronics - with WLAN!

Sunday 13 July

Little Room for Content Providers

Analyst: Chinese phones are world-class

Friday 11 July

Fujitsu uses Symbian OS for its latest videophone for NTT DoCoMo’s FOMA 3G service in Japan

Nokia Chairman and CEO, Jorma Ollila, has been awarded honorary membership of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Wednesday 9 July

New version (1.18) of the Doris Browser

How to encode videos to P800 format

Monday 7 July

Game designer J.Romero's design tips for N-Gage

Saturday 5 July

Fresh pictures of a new Nokia 6600

Wednesday 2 July

Is your phone full of images, but no place to put them?

New version of the MIMchess has been released

Monday 30 June

Fujitsu and Nokia Collaborate to Provide Enterprise Mobility Solutions and Services

Sunday 29 June

The Next Big Thing...The Cell Phone

Saturday 28 June

Sony Ericsson P810 photos? A fine looking phone!

Friday 27 June

Phone charges to be cut in the UK

UN urges wi-fi for all

Opera 6.01 released

Thursday 26 June

Carl-Henrik Svanberg, the leader of Sony Ericsson, told in the Svenska Dagbladet that Sony Ericsson will release P810 model after summer. It has a 1,3 megapixel camera! It is enough to print a very good quality 10 x 13cm picture if it has enough quality in lens.

17 Leading Companies Form Working Group to Simplify Sharing of Digital Content Among Consumer Electronics, PCs, and Mobile Devices

Wednesday 25 June

Nokia Increases CDMA Footprint in India

Tuesday 24 June

Are camera phones ready for a close-up?

Siemens SX1 will not be released before August

Nokia 6600 does not have stereo output. It is such a pity...

Wednesday 18 June

Bluetooth 1.2 on doorstep

Tuesday 17 June

RealNetworks and Nokia Announce Expanded Mobile Streaming Media Support for the Series 60 Platform

Nokia 6600 in comparison:

6600: 122g Dimensions:108.6x58.2x23.7mm,113cc
3650: 130g Dimensions:130.0x57.0x26.0 mm,139 cc
7650: 154g Dimensions:114.0x56.0x26.0 mm,138 cc
N-Gage:137g Dimensions:133.7x69.7x20.2 mm
P800: 158g Dimensions:117.0x59.0x27.0 mm
SX1: 110g Dimensions:116.0x56.0x19.0 mm

Monday 16 June

Nokia 6600 has Symbian OS 7.0, camera, MIDP 2.0, memory card, SMIL and more

Nokia 3100 is a new basic model.

more links:
Nokia 6600
Nokia 3100

Friday 13 June

IEEE Approves 802.11g Standard

Thursday 12 June

Mobey Forum reveals solution for secure mobile banking

Monday 9 June

Nokia brings Java MIDP2.0 support to the Series 60 Platform and to the latest version of the Nokia Developer Suite

The first picture of a new SonyEricsson T220?

Friday 6 June

The history of rubber boot company

Wednesday 4 June

Siemens licenses Atelier TSY telephony subsystems

Tuesday 3 June

Location services trial for London

Nokia obtains CDMA manufacturing licence for China

Monday 2 June

Warner Music And Nokia will be promoting bands in connection with the Nokia 3300

Friday 30 May

ARM And Nokia Sign Agreement To Boost Smart Phone Market

Tuesday 27 May

ARM Builds Security Foundation For Future Devices

Monday 26 May

VimpelCom gets more customers

Russian GSM operator VimpelCom has said it has signed up 25,000 new subscribers in St. Petersburg since launching services in the city on April 15. At the time of launch the operator said it was aiming to add 200,000 subscribers by the end of 2003. VimpelCom launched its St. Petersburg service with 110 base stations supplied by Ericsson and has since extended the number to 154.

Sunday 25 May

3G fiasco - only the porn barons win

Saturday 24 May

ZDNET has two Symbian phones leading...

Friday 23 May

Vodafone at Monaco GP

More and more telecom companies are seen as a replacement for the tobacco companies in the world of F1 sponsorship. This is because the both industries are trying to reach the same consumer segment.

Those of you who are going to visit Monaco GP next weekend will without a doubt notice Vodafone's (hired) 96 footer at the harbour.

Wednesday 21 May

Pen-based Nokia 6108

Nokia introduced a mobile phone with an innovative and intuitive pen input capability optimised for messaging and designed for Chinese language users in Asia Pacific markets. Developed at Nokia's Product Creation Centre in Beijing, the stylishly compact and feature-rich Nokia 6108 has tri-band (GSM 900/1800/1900) functionality, a high resolution colour display, MMS* (Multimedia Messaging Service), Java(TM), a built-in email client, an XHTML browser, a "Chinese-English-Chinese" dictionary and enhanced features for Chinese language users in the region. The Nokia 6108 will be commercially available in Asia Pacific markets during the third quarter of 2003.

Features:
* 98 grams
* 3 to 7 hours talktime
* 170 to 410 hours standby time
* 128 x 128 pixels, 4096 colours

Thursday 15 May

T-mobile says NO to Microsoft phone

Orange is now only big company in Europe that uses Microsoft Smartphones. T-Mobile was going to introduce its own version of Orange SPV-phone at summer.

Later today T-Mobile and Microsoft released this statement: "T-Mobile remains committed to launching a Microsoft Windows Powered Smartphone. The exact launch date for the Smartphone launch is still to be confirmed. T-Mobile and Microsoft continue to have a strong working relationship". It seems like we'll just have to wait and see...

Wednesday 14 May

Sony's handheld gaming machine

Sony announced plans to expand its in-home entertainment to outside the home with a new, all-in-one portable entertainment platform, “PSP”. Scheduled for release in the fourth quarter of 2004, the company’s goal is to extend the reach of PlayStation to a broader audience, allowing consumers to enjoy gaming and other entertainment content anytime, anywhere.

The foundation of this new platform is Universal Media Disc (UMD), which comprises of a 60mm optical disc (1.8 GB) in a cartridge, developed by the Sony Group, utilizing its latest disc technologies. Compared to the out-dated mask ROM cartridge, optical disc has huge advantages such as shorter turn around time for manufacturing, larger data capacity and lower media costs. The latest copy-protection technology will be applied to offer content developers and publisher a safe and copy-protected environment.

Features include 480 x 272 pixel (16 by 9) TFT LCD monitor with a backlight, USB 2.0 port and Memory StickTM.

PSP will take market share from N-Gage which is coming in October.

Wednesday 7 May

Helix - gaming Palm

Tapwave unveiled plans for creating a new product category — mobile entertainment gear. This new category of products was born from a plan to address the mobile entertainment needs of technology enthusiasts (primarily ages 18 to 34). Tapwave’s first product offering, code-named Helix, will be available at retail and online later this year.

Helix is competitor with Nokia N-gage and Gameboy Advance. It is based on Palm-platform. It has such features as mp3- and videoplayer, a big display and all traditional Palm programs.

Tuesday 6 May

T-Mobile emerging

T-Mobile is emerging as a dominant mobile operator, with 54 million people subscribing to the services it operates globally at end-2002. The company has recently completed a process of brand consolidation and is developing a strong data offering to users through its t-zones walled-garden portal, which launched to all subscribers in April.

T-Mobile has also sought to offer reduced GPRS tariffs in order to stimulate demand. Downloadable Java games are a key part of the t-zones multimedia service, along with music and sports content. The operator was the first to publicly commit to Nokia's N-Gage.

Wednesday 30 April

Elektrobit joins Symbian Platinium Partner Program

Elektrobit announced today that it has joined the Symbian Platinum Partner Program to support the emerging market for Symbian OS advanced mobile phones. As a Platinum Partner, Elektrobit is extending its productization solutions to the Symbian ecosystem. The agreement enables Elektrobit to develop High-Tier mobile phones with Symbian OS for its customers.

Intel is supporting Symbian OS

Intel supports software development for Xscale prosessors. Intel is very important for Symbian.

Friday 25 April

Nokia and Samsung joining 4G forces

Nokia and Samsung are going to develop 4G standards together according to Korea IT News. Website has got its information from Samsungs officers. Here is the link.

AOL joins Symbian Platinum Partner Program too!

America Online, the world's leading interactive services company, is able to develop its wireless instant messaging services and ICQ® as well as its leading predictive text input software, T9® Text Input, for Symbian OS™ mobile phones. In addition, America Online will have the ability to develop content-based services and applications for Symbian OS.

Wednesday 23 April

Ionific joins Symbian Platinum Partner Program

The Symbian Platinum Program includes companies that have a technology or strategic position that is key to the success of mobile computing technology surrounding Symbian OS. As part of the program, Platinum Partners benefit from a range of commercial services, including technical support and joint marketing opportunities as well as privileged access to Symbian OS source code and a dedicated Partner Support team.

Gilles Allain, VP Partnerships and Alliances at Symbian, said, "Ionific has a long and proven track record of providing handset manufacturers with highly valued services. We are pleased to have Ionific join the Symbian Platinum Program and make their multimedia and performance-critical applications available to the Symbian ecosystem."

Wednesday 16 April

WLAN over 3G?

WLAN will be established as the dominant mobile wireless infrastructure by 2008 at the expense of 3G, according to a report from Metrinomics, a market research company from Germany. Around 90% of participants in the study believe that WLAN will be the infastructure of choice if their employers decide to deploy in-house wireless infrastructure solutions in the next five years. WLAN is perceived as being the better performer of the two technologies, and is also considered to have a better range of available services.

Research seems to be a little bit unfair to 3G. It is possible that 3G technologies will improve a lot before the year 2008 and most of the problems will be solved by then. We belive that there will be future for both tecnologies in their own segments.

Monday 14 April

Sagem myX-6

Sagem has introduced new mobile phone entitled myX-6. Here is a part from Sagem's press release:

CCD camera offers an optimal picture quality, even if weather conditions are bad or if the subjects are moving. A full set of features around picture capture are provided with myX-6 and more specifically a 3 position zoom. The camera’s VGA resolution (640x480 pixels) enables you to send pictures to an e-mail address with a high level of quality, or store them in your PC and print them whenever you desire it.

Its TFT display is able to maximise the rendering. This large screen (up to 12 lines / 32x40 mm) also permits to really appreciate in 65000 colours all the pictures taken, and the GPRS Class 10 meets the needs of fast data communication.

The myX-6 features the best of modern technology inside a lightweight (106 gr.) and small (110x46x22mm) mobile phone.

Thursday 10 April

Wimax is growing

Intel and many other companies have joined Wimax-organisation(World interoperability for microwave access). Nokia is already a member. Wimax is making wireless 802.16a-standard. It is wireless standard with speed of 70 mbps and range of 50 kilometers.

Nokia is right now testing wlan(802.11b) -standard in mobile phones. Maybe we will see it in Nokia-phone next year.

Tuesday 8 April

Sonera Colour services launched

Sonera is launching a range of mobile phone services in colour. Sonera Colour combines the familiar content of Sonera Plaza, the best services provided in colour by Soneras content partners and comprehensive communications services into an convenient service package for the new colour display phones.

Wednesday 2 April

Nokia to Start Making CDMA Phones in China

Nokia strengthens presence in China by merging manufacturing Joint Ventures and prepares to begin production of CDMA handsets in China. The merger represents a major milestone for Nokia in China - it demonstrates Nokia's long-term commitment to China and underscores the successful collaboration between Nokia and its Chinese partners. With Nokia's increased investment in research and development in China, the new company is well positioned to lead China's mobile handset and network markets as well as improving its competitiveness in the global market.

At the same time an american company Qualcomm is driving CDMA to Iraq, so maybe it is not so bad idea after all...

Tuesday 1 April

Every third mobile phone made in China

Mobile phones manufactured in China will account for 33 % of total world production this year, compared to 27 % in 2002. Strategy Analytics, an American research institute, forecasts that by 2008 one-half of the world's mobile phones will be made in China. Statistics published by mobile phone manufacturers show that 100 million mobile phones were manufactured in China last year and 119 million were sold there. The largest Chinese manufacturer at present is Ningbo Bird, surpassed only by Motorola and Nokia.

Monday 24 March

Phone vs. PC

In the future mobile phones will have Wi-Fi (802.11) compability. Wi-Fi has the speed that is more than enough for phone: 802.11b can transfer even 11 Mbps, so it's 100-200 times faster than GPRS. This will come to reality at the latest year 2004. Data transfer from the phone and to the phone will be soon part of our everyday lives, when phones have GPRS/EDGE, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi.

Mobile phone will be soon tackling from the same market shares with PC-computers. Some phones have even today so powerful prosessors (>200mhz) that they could use common PC-programs. When you add keyboard and TV- or monitor- connection with bluetooth, it has the same, or even better user friendlines than PC has. Nokia has already revealed Image Viewer to upload photos with Bluetooth connection and project them to your TV screen or video projector.

PC will always have more prosessing power, but you don't need so much power to use normal office applications, internet, e-mail, word processing, spreadsheet etc. Have you ever dreamed that you could put your PC in your pocket, it would be ready to use within 5 seconds, there would not be any noisy fans and it would cost only 200 EUR/$? Start dreaming...

Sunday 23 March

China and USA are going mobile

China has the biggest mobile phone market in the world. There are as many mobile phones as wired ones, about 250 millions. In the USA there are about 150 million subscribers. While these numbers are huge, mobile phone penetration is not so big: 15% in China and 50% in the USA.

Monday 17 March

Mitsubishi licenses Symbian OS

Symbian Ltd today announces that Mitsubishi Electric Corp, the Japanese mobile phone manufacturer, has signed a development licence agreement for Mitsubishi to use Symbian OS in its future range of advanced mobile phones. Mitsubishi has already developed its first concept model based on Symbian OS which was released at CEBIT as we already reported earlier.

Friday 14 March

Motorola, Samsung Mitsubishi introduced phones with Symbian platform

Motorola presented new A920 model which has Symbian platform with UIQ-user inteface. Like BenQ's new P30 model, it has touch panel and USB. Other featues are memory card slot and camcorder.

Samsung has introduced their first Symbian based phone: SGH-D700. It has all the great new features like camcorder, USB, MP3 and memory card support.

Mitsubishi introduced new Symbian based 3g- prototype which have wlan- and VoIP- support, Memory card slot and camcorder. Mitsubishi has not yet officially licenced Symbian, which makes this 3g phone interesting.

Nokia presented new accessories for Series 60 -phones

Add-on Lens: Now you can take macro pictures with your "Nokia camera". There are lenses with macro capability of 10 cm and 5 cm.

Digital Pen: It lets you send handwritten MMS messages or store handwritten notes on your compatible PC.

Image Viewer: Upload photos with Bluetooth connection and project them to your TV screen or video projector.

Thursday 13 March

Samsung unveils new phones at CeBIT

Watch phone has great features in a very small space: Dual-band GPRS (class 10), 94*64 pix colour OLED display, Polyphonic ringtones and it weights only 80g. Not bad!

Pocket PC Phone SGH-i700 looks very much like Compaq's PDA:s, but it has also GPRS phone features! This one could be nice with always-on GPRS: Pretty fast (at least with phone standars..) internet with 240*320 pixel color screen.

Tuesday 11 March

BenQ unveils Symbian phone at CeBIT

P30 model is BenQ's first Symbian based phone. It has rich feature set: TFT touch panel, digital camera (640×480 pix), Bluetooth, GPRS, Java and MP3 support and USB.

Nokia 3300 unveiled today

Nokia today unveiled the Nokia 3300 music phone for digital entertainment. Designed specifically for enjoying music, the Nokia 3300 music phone incorporates a portable digital music player (MP3/AAC), a stereo FM radio, a digital recorder, advanced ring tones for an authentic music-like experience and enhanced messaging and games features in a single high quality, fun package. The Nokia 3300 is expected to start shipping in 2nd quarter 2003 in Europe and Africa and Asia Pacific, working on GSM 900/1800 bands. While the Nokia 3300 phone is designed with music in mind, it also enables consumers to play games, send multimedia messages to compatible devices and connect to the mobile services in the same device. The game controls and other action keys of the device are designed for two-hand use, and with the 128 x 128 pixel color display, they offer ease of play.

There are also preloaded JavaTM games in the Nokia 3300 music phone for immediate enjoyment. While playing the games, the user can conveniently listen to the music player or the stereo FM radio through the stereo headset. The Nokia 3300 has a volume of 115 cc and weighs 125 grams. Users can listen to the digital music player for up to 11 hours and the FM stereo radio up to 9 hours. The Nokia 3300 has a talk time of up to 3 hours and a standby time of up to 270 hours.

Nokia 6220 introduced today

Nokia today launched the Nokia 6220, a classic phone and personal organizer designed for mobile professionals on the go. Featuring an integrated camera, the Nokia 6220 has a classic style with a wide complement of features, including EDGE connectivity, high-quality colour display, Java(TM) technology, presence-enhanced contacts and multimedia messaging (MMS). A tri-band (GSM/EDGE 900/1800/1900) mobile device, the Nokia 6220 is expected to start shipping in Europe, Africa and Asia Pacific regions in the third quarter of 2003. The Nokia 6220 weighs 92 grams and has a talk time of up to 2 - 4 hours and a standby time of up to 8 days.

Thursday 6 March

Nokia 3650 Edition of CodeWarrior Wireless Development Kit for Symbian OS(TM)

Metrowerks, maker of CodeWarrior(TM) software and hardware development tools and services, announced the release of an all-in- one developer kit for the Series 60 Platform. Metrowerks will distribute the advanced kit, which makes Series 60 application development in the CodeWarrior environment possible for the first time.

CodeWarrior Wireless Development Kit for Symbian OS includes CodeWarrior Development Studio for Symbian OS v2, Nokia 3650 phone, Nokia Series 60 SDK for Symbian OS and headset etc.

Tuesday 4 March

New SonyEricsson phones

Rumours about new phones from SonyEricsson around the net are true. Seems like they finally got some kind of idea how to design a mobile phone. SonyEricsson presented their two new phones T310 and T610 today.

Sunday 23 February

Low production cost for Nokia 8250

According to chinese Star News Nokia 8250 is produced in Taiwan at a cost of only US$55. It is sold in China for around US$200.

Wednesday 19 February

New Siemens SX1 symbian phone with camcorder

SX1 is Siemens' first Symbian based smartphone. It features an integrated camera, high-resolution color display and an innovative keypad. The SX1 was created on the basis of the Series 60 software platform and it weights only 110 grams.

Other features: built-in video player, music player, radio, Series60 and Java (J2ME) programs, full set of business applications directly comparable to a normal PDA, including local and wireless synch.

Ericsson, Nokia and Siemens will make talking possible over GPRS and EDGE networks with push to talk

Push to talk service is a two-way form of communications that allows users to engage in immediate communication with one or more receivers, similar to Walkie Talkie -- simply by pushing a button on their handsets.

Users receiving the transmission hear the sender’s voice automatically without having to answer the call.

Monday 17 February

Samsung becomes Symbian shareholder

Samsung will acquire a 5.0% shareholding in Symbian for a total consideration of £17.0 million. Symbian ltd is now owned by Samsung, Nokia, Ericsson, Matsushita, Motorola, Psion, Siemens and Sony Ericsson.

Nokia and Sony Ericsson to align developer tools for Symbian

This collaboration between Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Symbian will make it possible for developers to use a unified tool set to develop Symbian OS applications for products using both UIQ and Series 60 terminal software platforms. Developers will also benefit from easier verification processes and faster time to market.

From Q2 2003, developers will benefit from being able to use a single tool set to target both Series 60 and UIQ devices. This will enable developers to address a larger population of Symbian OS phones, creating cost savings and improving time to market. Unified tool sets targeting both UIQ and Series 60 are currently under evaluation. Developers currently undertake native application development on Series 60 using Visual C++ tools. UIQ developers use Metrowerks' CodeWarrior tools.

Nokia and Sony Ericsson are also evaluating a common certification program for Symbian OS applications. This program is intended to enable application developers, network operators and phone customers to test, certify and sign applications for Symbian OS phones. Application developers will be able to assure their application's quality, helping to broaden the market for Symbian OS applications. In addition, network operators will be able to control application installation while users will be sure of the source, quality and integrity of Symbian OS applications.

Sunday 16 Febrauary

BenQ and Symbian sign agreement for Symbian OS smartphones

BenQ Corporation and Symbian Ltd announced that BenQ, a leading Taiwanese consumer electronics manufacturer, has signed an agreement with Symbian that provides BenQ with access to Symbian OS source code and enables BenQ develop Symbian OS phones. BenQ will design and manufacture and market Symbian OS smartphones for 2.5G and 3G networks worldwide.

Thursday 13 February

First Java/Linux phone released

Motorola announced today the Motorola A760, the world’s first handset combining a Linux Operating System (OS) and Java™ Technology, with full multimedia PDA functionality. The Motorola A760 combines the features of a mobile phone with the capabilities of a personal digital assistant (PDA), digital camera, video player, MP3 player, speakerphone, advanced messaging, instant Internet access and Bluetooth wireless technology.

Tuesday 4 February

MTS customer database stolen

This story from Moscow Times is quite unbeliveble. It says that someone had stolen a database of leading Russian cellphone operator MTS. That database contains private details of what is estimated to be more than 5 million of its clients. Private details includes names, addresses, home phone numbers, passport details, individual tax numbers and other personal information that can be used for identity theft, are being sold on the black market by street vendors for just US$60.

The Police officials say that it is difficult to prosecute those who reproduce such databases because there are no laws defining the activity as a crime. Buying these databases is not illegal either.

Friday 31 January

New Java Specification Request for mobile phones

Sun has made new spesifications which tells how phone manufacturers should make their java -based phones. It tells also which kind of applications phones should have after five years. See more from Sun's Java Technology for the Wireless Industry.

Monday 27 January

Symbian has 44% of the PDA & Smartphone market

Palm had 24% and HP had just 9% of the market. Nokia took 84% of the smartphone alone market. Orange with the SPV had only 5%.

Siemens creates Fashion Phone Category

Each XELIBRI collection will consist of four phones and just as fashion accessories there will be spring/summer and fall/winter collections. The phones will be available in limited quantities and will have a lifecycle of twelve months, which is significantly shorter than existing mobile phones.

The new fashion accessories will be sold initially in the U.K., China, including Hong Kong, in France, Germany, Italy, Singapore and Spain from April 2003, and in further markets from September 2003.

Siemens plans to launch a Symbian phone in the coming weeks

PMN writes that Siemens AG plans to launch a smartphone, based on Symbian-platform, in the coming weeks.

Siemens will launch two phones: one high-end and one low-end model at the GSM World conference in Cannes, France. An additional two models will be launched at the CeBIT technology fair in Hannover, Germany, in March.

Siemens' first Symbian based smartphone model will be equipped with a colour screen. Siemens also plans to expand its successful 55 handset series with S55, which has multimedia messaging capabilities, a colour screen, and the option of an attachable camera with a built-in flash.

Sunday 26 January

SonyEricsson T310 to be released soon?

If the rumours are true it seems like the T310 is based on the same platform as T300. The main difference is that T310 has improved design (that maybe copies some Nokia models) and it has internal camera as well.

Thursday 23 January

Kodak entering the camera phone business

Photography company Kodak is planing an entry into the market for camera phones. "I see the phone guys making a ton of cameras, we want to work with them to see if there is something we can do to add more value to that." Kodak Chief Executive Dan Carp told Reuters.

Saturday 18 January

F2051? New Ferrari?

In fact the Foma F2051 is a new 3G handset from NTT DoCoMo and it will be available in Japan today. The F2051 offers about 170 hours of continuous dynamic stand-by, or about 230 hours of static stand-by. The new handset is compatible with the new i-motion mail™ service also launched today by NTT, which enables users to e-mail around 15-second/100 KB video clips taken with the handset's built-in camera, or files downloaded from sites. More information here.

Friday 17 January

BenQ will use the Symbian OS platform

According to Digitimes -magazine, Irwin Chen, president of BenQ’s wireless business unit, has said that BenQ will use the Symbian OS platform for a smartphone to be launched in the third quarter of 2003.

BenQ, formerly known as Acer Communications & Multimedia Group, is Taiwan’s largest mobile phone maker.

Thursday 16 January

Nokia is expected to post lower Q4 earnings

Nokia is expected to post slightly lower fourth-quarter earnings due to poor demand for mobile network equipment, a Reuters poll showed on Thursday. Reuters also told that Nokia is expected to outperform mobile phone rivals in terms of market share and profitability despite sluggish markets, because of its strict grip on costs due to job cuts, product outsourcing and a strong brand, which helps it achieve economies of scale.

Tuesday 14 January

Nokia brings J2ME toolkit to Linux

Nokia has earlier announced that it will be supporting Java technology in a wide selection of its current and future mobile phones. Today Nokia introduced J2ME toolkit to Linux developers. It will bring one of the most-popular available wireless developer technologies to one of the most dynamic segments of the global developer community.

Seems like Linux and mobile world are getting closer all the time. We've heard that the first mobile phones based on Mobile Linux will be released by some unnamed Asian manufacturer later this year.

Friday 10 January

Comparison Nokia 3650 vs. Sony Ericsson P800

I have made short comparison of technical specifications. You find it here.

Fujitsu to begin shipment of Symbian OS phones

This is the first Symbian OS smartphone to be launched in Japan and is also the first Symbian OS 3G smartphone. It is the result of close co-operation between Symbian and Fujitsu both to create a Symbian OS user interface for the Japanese language as well to optimize Symbian OS for NTT DoCoMo's 3G FOMA network.

Thursday 9 January

Nokia 3650 selected as an award winner

The new Nokia 3650 imaging phone was selected as an Innovations 2003 award winner at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The annual Innovations awards honored the year's most innovative products in 20 categories. Innovations is the most widely renowned consumer technology awards program in the consumer electronics industry, endorsed and advised by the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) and sponsored and produced by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA).

Wednesday 1 January

MIDP 2.0 final specification is ready!

MIDP 2.0 delivers an enhanced user interface, multimedia and game functionality, greater connectivity, over-the-air (OTA) provisioning and better end-to-end security. It has great improvements: