Thursday, December 23, 2004

From ODM to OBM: Korea's Pantech & Curitel Signs USD 1.6bn Deal with Audiovox. Korea's third-largest cellular handset manufacturer, Pantech & Curitel, has just concluded a very large contract to supply ten million CDMA phones to the U.S. market via U.S. distributor Audiovox. The move from ODM to branded company makes a lot of sense. [Wireless IQ - News Feeds]
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Wireless Infrastructure: More 3G, More GSM, More from China. Wireless infrastructure is showing distinctive trends on three fronts with strong regional differences highlighting differences between mature and emerging markets. [Wireless IQ - News Feeds]
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Sidebar: Beyond G: 802.11n. Next-generation wireless devices could offer four times the speed of 802.11g, but industry-standard products are still two years away. [Computerworld Mobile/Wireless News]
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Sprint's 'Music Choice Today'.

sanyo_mm7400 imageSprint has launched 'Music Choice Today,' a radio-like audio streaming service for the Sprint multimedia phone(s). For $6, customers can subscribe to the service, which offers a variety of genres (you might call them 'stations') for streaming pop songs to your earpiece. Unfortunately, the service is only available for a single phone at the moment, the Sanyo MM-7400. If the service proves to be popular, I'm sure Sprint will release more phones that support it[~]or they could just release phones with FM tuners and customers could listen to as much music as they wanted for free.

New Service Puts Audio Channels on Cell Phones [Reuters via Orbitcast]

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DMB Expo 2004 Gadgets.

dmb_expo2004.jpg imageIT Media Japan has a few pictures up of some of the hardware (primarily Samsung) shown at the DMB Expo 2004. DMB is Digital Media Broadcasting, a television content broadcasting format that is getting a big push in Korea. Television on cellphones is still at a "I wouldn't mind it" level of excitement for me[~]a level shared by "shark shin exfoliating T-shirt"[~]but new gear is always welcome.

Product Shots from DMB Expo 2004 (Japanese) [ITMediaJP via SorobanGeeks]

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KDDI Music Downloads: $70mn Annual Revenue?. By Daniel Scuka, 20 December 2004 According to a 15 December report on IT Media (Japanese), KDDI's Chaku-uta Full music download service has achieved over 360,000 downloads in the first 3 weeks [~] great results based on only about 200,000 supporting handsets. A keen WWJ reader has taken thi... [Wireless Watch Japan]
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Record Korean CDMA Order. Korea IT News, 21 December 2004 One of the top-tier handset makers in Korea, Pantech & Curitel, has successfully entered a contract to supply 10 million mobile phones to the United States, the largest volume of single contract ever recorded. P&C said on Monday that it had sealed a contract ... [Wireless Watch Japan]
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DoCoMo Invests in MontaVista. WWJ Editors, 21 December 2004 DoCoMo announced today that it has agreed with MontaVista Software Inc., a U.S. developer of Linux software for teleco equipment and mobile handsets, to invest $3 million in newly issued preferred stock for an equity stake in the company. DoCoMo has already introduced... [Wireless Watch Japan]
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Kyocera Testing iBurst. WWJ Editors, 22 December 2004 Kyocera has obtained a permit from the government to begin experiments of the "iBurst System," ArrayComm's wireless technology with maximum downstread of 1Mbps, and has begun testing the technology inside of their Yokohama office. The system is said to have a... [Wireless Watch Japan]
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LG Telecom Focus for 2005. Korea Herald, 22 December 2004 LG Telecom Ltd., the smallest of Korea's three mobile-phone carriers, said it will focus on added-value features such as digital music and mobile television services next year to defend its customer pool from other carriers. "The company is planning to install MP... [Wireless Watch Japan]
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