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To: slacker711 who wrote (58756)	1/18/2007 2:02:18 PM
From: slacker711	Respond to of 196499

I wonder if they are hinting that Sony Ericsson has the inside track on the "3G for all" contract.... business-standard.com For sale: Ericsson 3Gs for $100 BS Reporter / New Delhi January 19, 2007 You can soon buy an Ericsson third generation mobile phones for $100 (about Rs 4,500) when the Swedish telecom major rolls out the 3G service. The company is working with various telecom operators to trial run 3G services. Ericsson CEO Carl-Henric Svanberg said today that mobile broadband using 3G technologies is the next big revolution and India is where the action is. “We are in the business of supplying infrastructure and we see a great potential here as every operator is working in the direction (3G). We see tremendous growth in data traffic in India,” he said. A cellphone is not simply a phone today - it is a radio, camera and even an office. In the future, more and more people will experience internet by handsets.” he said. Svanberg said : “The US $ 100 3G phone has become a reality now. We are already conducting 3G trials with various telecom operators in the country already”. When asked about BSNL’s mega 45 million line GSM tender, in which Ericsson emerged the lowest bidder, getting into legal wrangle after US telecom giant Motorola challenged the process in the Delhi High Court, Carl-Henric said: “Faster the solution the better it is. Delay is not positive for BSNL.” PTI said. The government has declared 2007 as the year of broadband and has set a target of 10 million broadband subscribers by 2007 from the curent 2 million. He added that Sony Ericsson-its joint venture mobile phone company has a nine per cent market share in the country. “Globally our market share is 9.1 per cent and we also have about the same market share in India” he added. The company is also looking at expanding its business in India. “We will invest $ 100 million every year for the next five years but we can increase the invest depending on the growth of the industry,” Mats Granryd, MD India and Sri Lanka Ericsson said. He said that the Indian telecom industry has been growing at 100 per cent and the company was looking at growth more than the industry growth rate. The company will also increase the head count in our two R&D centres in Gurgaon and Chennai from the current 150, he added. Meanwhile, Bharti Airtel has said that it will invest more than $ 2 billion for the for the financial year 2006-07. Of these, about two-third will be used for wireless segment and expanding its coverage in new areas. “Last year we invested $ 2 billion. This year the investment will be more than $ 2 billion. The investment will come from internal generation (accruals),” joint Managing director and chief financial officer of Bharti Airtel said.

To: slacker711 who wrote (58756)	1/19/2007 7:32:07 AM
From: slacker711	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196499

Review: Find info on your mobile phone fast using Celltop geek.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- posted 3:27pm EST Thu Jan 18 2007 - submitted by JoelGeek BLOG If you're sick of your phone interface you'll love Alltel Wireless's latest innovation: Celltop. Celltop is essentially a new spin on the user interface. Built on Qualcomm's BREW uiOne platform, it allows for free and easy access to a tremendous amount of information, including info already buried somewhere on your mobile phone. The Celltop features "cells" which are basically content-specific areas (cells) that you can navigate through as well as customize. The really cool thing about the "cells" is that you can have more than one on the screen at a time. Alltel is currently offering 10 pre-installed "cells" including call log, weather, news, baseball, basketball, football, stocks, text messaging inbox, ringtones, and even rodeo. You can customize each cell and will soon be able to add your own "cells" and other cells provided by third-parties. For now Celltop is only available for Alltel Wireless customers and only on the Samsung u520, but by late-2007 all new Alltel phones will have it. I was fortunate enough to receive a test unit a while back and have to say that not only does Celltop deliver, but it's insanely easy to use. Since I'm a geek I decided to give the device a shot without reading any documentation. I just turned on the phone and tried to figure out what Alltel Wireless was trying to show off. After turning the phone over a few times trying to see what was innovative, I realized text above one of the navigation buttons on the startup screen that said "Celltop". I clicked it and up popped a beautifully laid out screen loaded with a ton of information. A couple of clicks later and I was customizing the weather. Here you can see my call log on the left and my customized weather on the right. A push to the right yielded some sports scores and another click and some typing later and I was reading the stats from Sunday's football game. Notice in this picture how I have one cell for football and one for stocks. You see how it tells me that there are no games scheduled. It really is just that easy to use. It's always nice when technology works the way you'd expect it to, not to mention the way you're being told it works. :-) Another nice thing is that the data comes from trusted sources like the Associated Press and Accuweather, to name a few. It turns out that Alltel Wireless partnered with Motricity to make that part a reality. Right now Celltop is only available for Alltel Wireless subscribers but Alltel has plans to try to license it out. Depending on what they've patented, I'm sure there will be a few J2ME developers mimicking it soon, too. It's definitely a great idea and something that was needed. Now if only they release a "cell" that lets you put in your own RSS feeds and maybe Gmail, then they'd have a real hit on their hands. Data is the big money maker for mobile phone operators and giving the user the option to see the data that they care about most is a great way to convince customers to commit to "all you can eat" data plans. Since I'm not an Alltel Wireless customer I'll stick to reading RSS feeds and navigating through mobile-friendly sites, but it would be great to have something like Celltop.