Hi Kerm long long time no hear. Here's an interesting posting for Zi taken from Ragingbull.com site:
By: ThorsHammer
Reply To: 248 by sagemage
Tuesday, 18 May 1999 at 5:39 PM EDT
Post # of 249
Zica'ns, thought you may fnd this of interest;
Hot Items in China's Mobile Phone Market: Chinese Language And Dual
Frequency (5/17/99) Chinese language and dual frequency mobile phones are currently the hottest items in China's handset market, according to the May 4 Renmin Youdian Bao (People's Post & Telecommunications). Chinese handsets now have the capability to offer a Chinese menu, which makes mobile phones open to a huge number of the population who are unfamiliar with English. Furthermore, the ever more congested GSM900 network has ensured that obstacles to the implementation of a new mobile phone platform, the GSM1800 network, will be removed. Commercial advertisements for dual frequency handsets that can "swim fluidly" with either network have attracted enormous interest. Even though few cities have opened a GSM1800 network, this has definitely not slowed the buying fervor for dual frequency handsets. Since the beginning of this year, every large Chinese city has increased its pace of GSM network construction, and forecasts have dual frequency handsets dominate the China market by next year.
Currently, all three large handset producers -- Motorola, Nokia and Erickson -- are promoting their own dual frequency units. Motorola promotes its cd928+ and cd938, Nokia the 6150, and Erickson the S868. Some other manufacturers, such as Siemens, are pushing their own dual frequency handsets. It is expected that handsets developed by China will also come out in the latter half of this year.
Users of Erickson's handset, with its small display screen, have tended to be somewhat dismissive. But Erickson is responding by marketing a Chinese dual frequency handset with a large liquid crystal display and high-speed language codes.
The "All Chinese Handsets" with Chinese input and menu display have a
distinctively dominant position. Chinese input handsets support
communications in Chinese between handsets, with one handset being
able to send another information in Chinese. This function is very effective in airports, exhibitions, and other such venues. In meetings and other situations in which it is not convenient to speak on the phone, communications can still be made via handsets supporting Chinese input. Currently, there are already some producers who have announced that they are developing handset technology for Chinese input, but currently only Motorola's cd928+ is available in the market. Chinese input handsets by other producers are expected to appear on the market later this year.
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