Mobile Silicon Could Propel China's Nascent 3G Market   18 Oct 2005 13:29 GMT
Two companies focused on China’s domestic third-generation mobile standard have made advances this week with silicon platforms badly needed by system vendors to seed the emerging market.
Source: Mobile Pipeline

New Wi-Fi mobility system comes to Europe   18 Oct 2005 12:50 GMT
Allied Telesyn hopes to offer European users of wide-area Wi-Fi networks the ability to move from one access point to another without losing a connection, using proprietary technology developed and deployed in Asia.
Source: InfoWorld

Spansion Samples 1GBit NOR-Based Embedded Flash Memory   18 Oct 2005 12:30 GMT
In a radical departure from other nonvolatile memory vendors who have focused their high density efforts on the sequentially accessed NAND-based portion of the market for mobile devices, Spansion LLC has begun sampling a one gigabit randomly accessed NOR flash memory targeting embedded devices.
Source: Mobile Pipeline

On the street with Samsung's sat-TV phone   18 Oct 2005 11:36 GMT
When Samsung Electronics said last year that it was developing a cell phone capable of receiving satellite TV broadcasts it seemed almost too futuristic to be true.
Source: InfoWorld

HP brings hw6500 iPaqs to U.S. with Cingular   18 Oct 2005 11:31 GMT
Cingular Wireless will be the first U.S. carrier to sell Hewlett-Packard's new iPaq hw6500 series phones, the companies are expected to announce Tuesday at Gartner's Symposium/ITXpo 2005.
Source: InfoWorld

Nokia 9500 Handset Connects With The World   18 Oct 2005 09:00 GMT
Nokia 9500 handset's myriad interfaces, including Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, connect with the world.
Source: Mobile Pipeline

Verizon Wireless seeks location deadline extension (Reuters)   18 Oct 2005 02:38 GMT
Reuters - Verizon Wireless on Monday asked U.S. telecommunications regulators to extend a year-end deadline for 95 percent of its cellphones to be able to pinpoint location and help emergency workers find callers more easily.
Source: Yahoo

OSDL Wants Unity In Mobile Linux   17 Oct 2005 23:36 GMT
There's a new effort to develop a Linux platform for advanced cellular phones and other mobile devices.
Source: Mobile Pipeline

Samsung Intros Phone with 3-GB Drive (NewsFactor)   17 Oct 2005 21:22 GMT
NewsFactor - Korean electronics giant Samsung recently unveiled a mobile phone with a 3-GB drive, offering enough storage for a couple of hours of video or hundreds of digital tunes, all on a voice-enabled handheld.
Source: Yahoo

T-Mobile launches world's first Flash-OFDM service   17 Oct 2005 21:05 GMT
Slovakia is home to what Flarion Technologies Inc. is calling the world's first commercial launch of a new broadband wireless technology designed to compete with Wi-Fi and 3G (third-generation) networks.
Source: InfoWorld