Sony Ericsson also announced the P800, a multimedia phone launched in March,
will feature extendable memory through Memory Stick Duo, which gives the device
16 Megabits of additional memory. The P800 will be on the market in the third
quarter. www.sonyericsson.com

Siemens

Siemens launched the C55,
a mobile phone that plays and downloads polyphonic ring tones and records
sounds. The phone also has advanced messaging services, wireless Java
and a range of CLIPit Covers in different designs. The polyphonic sound feature
has a total of 16 chords. www.siemens.com

Cdma2000
equipment

Ericsson

Ericsson introduced its cdma2000
1X macro radio base station 1130, an addition to its cdma2000 radio access
network product portfolio. It delivers both multi-carrier support and
increased capacity in a compact enclosure, the company said. Ericsson also
unveiled a new tool for its TEMS cdma2000 portfolio. The TEMS DriveTester,
a real-time measurement tool, locates trouble spots in cdma2000 networks.
Other products in the TEMS portfolio include the TEMS Indoor, TEMS cdmaPlanner,
TEMS Investigation CDMA, TEMS DeskCat and TEMS cdmaTransporter. www.ericsson.com

Lucent Technologies

Lucent said its cdma2000
1xEV-DO equipment, including base station and core network hardware and software,
is now commercially available. The equipment is designed to initially support
providers using 1900 MHz spectrum. 1x EV-DO is a data-optimized evolution
of cdma2000 1x technology. Lucent is making available the Flexent radio network
controller that performs call processing and implements the packet control
functions. www.lucent.com

Samsung

Samsung said it completed development
of an EV-DO mobile phone with high-quality TFT-LCD that
can reproduce 260,000 different color shades. The phone can send and
receive data at up to 2.4 Megabits per second. The phone uses a streaming
format to support video on demand and audio on demand. Users can receive a
variety of color moving content, such as music videos, Internet broadcasts,
animated films and news reports. Samsung also released the SCH-X590 with color
display and embedded charge-coupled device camera. The embedded digital camera
can rotate 180 degrees to take pictures from any angle. The phone can store
up to 100 photos in its memory, and users can search an image archive of six
images at a time. www.samsung.com

Roaming
technology

Am-Beo

Am-Beo, provider of rating and
revenue chain management solutions for next-generation services, has released
its Roam Manager, designed to handle TAP 3.9 transactions
for inter-carrier roaming. The product offers support for General Packet
Radio Service (GPRS) and value-added services. The software reconciles and
collects revenue among operators with roaming customers. www.am-beo.com

Bluefish and Zaryba

Bluefish Technology and Zaryba
partnered to introduce a mobile payment solution called
Zaryba TopUP. The system enables prepaid users to refill their prepaid
accounts directly from their handsets and offers a method of recharging while
roaming. The system is enabled through the Subscriber Identity Module (SIM)
using either SIMToolkit or SIM Browser technology offering a simple menu-driven
interface. www.bluefish-tech.com

Cerebrus

U.K.-based Cerebrus Solutions launched
RoamAssure, a product to combat roaming revenue leakage,
including mobile fraud. The company i
s a spin-off of Nortel Networks.
The product allows mobile operators to identify and respond quickly to fraudulent
activity by making roaming users’ activities visible to the home mobile network
in near real time. In addition
to fraud, the product addresses credit control,
bad debt avoidance and timely billing. RoamAssure is available worldwide.
www.cerebrussolutions.com

Multimedia
products

Sony

Sony announced that it will launch
a new storage device for mobile handsets, as
well as portable music players, in July. Sony has been providing Memory Stick.
The new storage device would be one-third the size of the conventional Memory
Stick and a half the weight of the conventional one. Sony has shipped 20 million
units of Memory Stick since 1998. Memory Stick-enabled machines and devices
have been increasing. Sony is targeting to ship 120 million units of Memory
Stick by 2004. www.sony.com

Thin Multimedia

U.S.-based Thin Multimedia made
available the Thin Video Alert mobile broadcasting system,
which allows users to receive breaking news reports and additional time-sensitive
video clips in real time. SK Telecom in Korea launched the service, branded
NateAir, in early March. The system allows users to select the information
they would like pushed to their mobile phones. When an alert is sent, the
user receives a message indicating there is a new video clip waiting, and
a touch of a button begins the video download. www.thinmultimedia.com

Atsana

Atsana Semiconductor said it has
introduced a programmable media processor for video
camera-enabled phones and WiFi Web cameras. “Atsana’s unique technology
enables handset designers to deliver a low battery drain and low cost camera-enabled
handset design, while providing full programmability to support any application,”
said Simon Morris, vice president of product management at Atsana. www.atsana.com

Network
equipment

Starent Networks

Starent released the Starent
ST16 intelligent mobile gateway designed to deliver data and voice services.
As a gateway between a wireless network and core Internet Protocol (IP) network,
the system addresses mobile network issues, including multimedia service delivery,
mobility, high capacity, enhanced billing, reliability and a migration path
to an all-IP network, the company said. www.starentnetworks.com

Software

BlueLinx

SchlumbergerSema and Compaq Computer
jointly launched a customer care and billing solution
that integrates advanced Storage Area Networks (SAN) technology, which
offers mobile operators higher storage capacity and greater scalability in
managing next-generation data applications. SAN technology allocates storage
on an as-needed basis to application servers providing quick backup and restore
capabilities with minimal interruption, which according to the companies,
ultimately reduces operator costs and increases return on investment. www.schlumberger.com

8hertz Technologies

Germany company 8hertz Technologies
released a Web-based VoiceXML application, the 8hertz Voice Dialog Editor.
The product, using Voxpilot’s pan-European Voice XML VSP, offers an easy-to-use
Web-based graphical interface for rapid voice application
development in multiple languages, the company said. Using a personal
account and a national telephone number, users can have unlimited free application
development and immediate testing and can upload their owns sound samples
to automatically integrate into an application. www.voxpilot.com

Comverse

Comverse announced Instant
Communications Solution (ICS), which enables mobile instant messaging.
The application uses presence-related subscriber information to introduce
a range of smart instant voice messaging and group messaging services. The
application allows subscribers to easily initiate a variety of instant voice
and text-based services with knowledge of the presence of the intended audience.
www.comverse.com

Bluetooth
technology

Red-M

London-based Red-M announced a
new in-building mobile voice strategy and roadmap
that it believes will reduce call costs, lower voice infrastructure costs
and improve employee productivity. According to Red-M, the solution integrates
voice into Genos wirelessware and a new category of Bluetooth voice and data
access point (VDAP). Genos allows Bluetooth headsets and Bluetooth cordless
telephony profile (CTP)-enabled handsets to use this same wireless network
infrastructure in making and receiving calls in the office. According to Simon
Gawne, vice-president and co-founder, Genos can save companies up to 25 percent
of mobile call costs and up to 40 percent of infrastructure costs by using
an in-building mobile voice infrastructure that uses mobile handsets. www.red-m.com

Flander

Finnish company Flander introduced
a Bluetooth-compatible Infrared Mobile Accessory
(IRMA). The pocket-size wireless device connects Bluetooth-enabled mobile
phones and personal digital assistants with a data projector, turning handheld
devices into presentation tools. The product enables PowerPoint slides to
be stored and showed in handheld devices with a data projector. www.flander.net