SEOUL, South Korea—Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. said it will sell its 2.5-generation handsets to Sprint Corp. if its current talks with the carrier succeed.The Korea Economic Daily had earlier reported that the vendor planned to sell 3 million cdma2000 1x phones to Sprint.
DALLAS—Samsung Telecommunications America said it has unveiled a branding campaign to make it a top three wireless phone manufacturer by 2003."STA's brand positioning centers around what consumers indicate as the most important and appealing aspects of their wireless phones: innovative technology, intuitive navigation and...
SEOUL, South Korea—Samsung SDI said it has developed the world's thinnest lithium-ion rechargeable cell phone batteries, which can store 355-watt hours in a space of a 2.8mm-thin, 34mm-wide and 58mm-high pack."With continued development, we will put these ultra-thin lithium ion batteries on the market...
While wireless handset sales worldwide are expected to continue to climb during the next several years, those sales are expected to be driven more by replacement handsets purchased by current wireless customers than handsets purchased by new wireless customers, according to a report from...
TEWKSBURY, Massachusetts, United States—Hoping to take advantage of the growth potential in China, U.S.-based Starent Networks signed a deal with Eastern Communications Company to provide its next-generation wireless infrastructure equipment for customers in China."This is a great opportunity for Starent to step into the...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—Finnish company Nokia decided to manage its South American business from its office in the United States, therefore moving Paul Murdock, regional manager, from Buenos Aires to Dallas and letting go of 25 percent of its staff in Argentina, mainly in the...
BEIJING and TOKYO — China's fixed-line operator China Telecom has started offering a CDMA service in Shenzhen, a prosperous city adjacent to Hong Kong.The service, called "Shihua Tong," will not offer roaming. Samsung Electronics is supplying handsets. However, the CDMA service may be squashed...
BEIJING—China Unicom expects nine out of the 19 firms licensed to produce CDMA handsets to be able to start production by the end of this year and be able to ship 19 million phones next year.Unicom hopes to recoup the investment in its CDMA...
DALLAS—Samsung Telecommunications America announced it will sponsor the Gadget Bar at "Fashion For Freedom," a fashion show scheduled for December 6, 2001, in Hollywood, Calif., to benefit the U.S. Fund for UNICEF and the World Trade Center Relief Fund.The Gadget Bar will offer various...
BEIJING-Samsung Electronics said it formed a joint venture with Shanghai Bell to develop, produce and market CDMA systems in China. The Chinese government approved the new company, named Shanghai Bell Samsung Mobile Communications, which has a total investment of US$29 million.Ownership will be 51...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—As speculation continues about what Siemens will do with its mobile-phone business, the research firm Gartner said that its latest study into cell-phone manufacturer rankings has seen Siemens slip back to fifth place, falling behind Samsung Electronics in terms of the number...
TEWKSBURY, Mass.-Starent Network Corp., a provider of next-generation mobile infrastructure solutions, reported its ST16 Intelligent Mobile Gateway platform was selected by Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. to be incorporated into Samsung's cdma2000 infrastructure offerings.Starent said the ST16 platform connects mobile operators radio networks with IP...
SEOUL, South Korea—Samsung said it increased its involvement in China Unicom's CDMA network and will provide a test 1x network for the operator, which plans to launch CDMA services next year. The 1x networks will be set up separately from the current-generation networks now...
TOKYO—Mitsubishi Electric and Samsung Electronics announced they have standardized specifications for random access memory modules (RAMs) for use in mobile devices to provide higher density, smaller packaging and lower prices.The companies have decided on two specifications for RAMS (which Mitsubishi refers to as "Mobile...
A new study by marketing research firm BWCS claimed that more than 90 percent of U.K. business travelers with laptops are interested in using wireless local area network (WLAN) services at airports, while 40 percent of those surveyed said they have no interest in...
Once upon a time, a technology called pACT had a life, savored some love and then disappeared into oblivion. Another one called B-CDMA rocked the eaves of wireless, had an echo and became silent.Like a wordsmith, the wireless industry had lots of acronyms-B-CDMA,...
BEIJING—South Korea's Samsung Electronics plans to join Kejian and two other Chinese companies to set up a joint venture in China's southern city of Shenzhen to produce CDMA handsets.The venture would have a registered capital of US$20 million and an investment of US$59.78 million.The...
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Sprint PCS introduced the Samsung SPH-I300 smart phone, combining a Palm-OS powered personal digital assistant and wireless handset.The six ounce device includes a backlit, virtual dialing pad on its touch screen panel with a 256-color display, dual LCD screens with caller identification...
ARLINGTON, Va.—Organizers of the 2002 International CES Knowledge Circuit conference program, scheduled for January 8, 2002, in Las Vegas, announced they expect to hold more than 100 educational sessions and to host 110,000 attendees.Eleven technology circuits expected to be covered in the conference include...
SEOUL, South Korea—Chip maker Toshiba Corp. wants to sell its dynamic random access memory chips to Samsung Electronics, a reflection of the Korean company's struggles.The company is also speculated to have offered to sell its chips to Infineon Technologies, NEC Corp. and Elpida.
HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia Corp. has lost some of its market share in the handset business, while L.M. Ericsson has climbed up to the No. 3 spot, according to the latest survey by Gartner Dataquest.Although Nokia remains the market leader, its market share dropped to 34.8...
In the short lifespan of the still nascent wireless Internet, the owners of the operating systems have already learned that best is not always enough. Palm, Windows CE and Symbian are the three OSs trying to slug it out with marketing strategies, technical appeals...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—In what appears to have been a politically motivated decision, the France Telecom-owned mobile operator Orange has dropped handsets developed by Ericsson and Siemens while retaining cell phones manufactured by French-based Alcatel and Sagem.Orange claims that this move to drop two of...
SEOUL, Korea—Samsung said Brazilian operator Telesp Celular recently chose Samsung as the best among its handset suppliers. The carrier assessed all its supplier companies, including handset manufacturers and advertising agencies, Samsung said.Telesp rated each supplier on such categories as delivery and product quality.Samsung has...
