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To: recycled_electron who wrote (67938)	8/19/2007 11:44:02 AM
From: Eric L	Respond to of 197443

Multi-Mode UMTS (WCDMA) 'Early UE' Commercial Launches Hello R.E., << Eric, thanks for sharing your Nokia insights. Regarding "Nokia was the 3rd manufacturer to ship commercial multi-mode 3G UMTS devices ...commenced initial commercial shipments of UMTS 'early UE' in July 2003", actually, Sanyo launched J-SA001 (based on QUALCOMM MSM5200) @ VF/J-Phone in Japan in 2002. >> Please note two words in my statement. 1.) commercial 2.) multi-mode. Vodafone Japan (J-PHONE) was the 1st 3GPP R'99 compliant single-mode WCDMA 2.1 GHz network to launch commercially, and I believe the official commercial launch date claimed by Vodafone for that network was December 2002. The MSM5200 was a single-mode QUALCOMM WCDMA only chipset. The J-SA001 by Sanyo was supposed to be a commercial offering on the Vodafone Japan J-PHONE single mode network. It never was. It was used in pre-commercial trialing on that network only. The Sanyo V-SA701 powered by the multi-mode MSM6200 was the 1st commercial handset launched on the network. It was, however, never qualified or offered on a multi-mode GSM/WCDMA network including Vodafone's in Europe or APAC when they eventually launched and neither was its successor, the Sanyo V801SA which launched in December 2003 on J-PHONE which became Vodafone K.K. QUALCOMM sponsored 3GToday which tracked early WCDMA handset launches with reasonable accuracy generally getting the commercial launch date correct within a month, cites the Sanyo V-SA701 as launching commercially on Vodafone K.K (actually J-PHONE) in May 2003, the Motorola A830 and NEC e606 as March 2003. the NEC e808y as July 2003, the Nokia 6650 as August 2003, the Motorola A920 as September, 2003. The initial MSM6200 powered handsets announced by LG and Samsung never appeared commercially although a Samsung with MSM6200 was used in early pre-commercial trialing in Spain in late 2003 or early 2004. LGs 1st commercial multi-mode UMTS handsets used EMP chipsets as did Sony Ericsson's and Sharp's. The Sanyo V801SA using the MSM6200 launched on Vodafone K.K in Japan in December 2003, but like the V-SA701 was never exported to EMEA or other APAC networks. The 1st MSM6200 powered handset that was actually commercially available on multi-mode UMTS networks that I'm aware of was the Samsung SGH-Z105 launched in May 2004. On the trivia side, The first UMTS (WCDMA) handset to gain type approval in Japan and Europe (Q4 2003) was the Nokia 6650. The first GCF (Global Certification Forum) certified UMTS (WCDMA) handset with the 'early UE' tag removed was the Nokia 6630 Symbian based S60 smartphone which commercially launched across Europe and in APAC in November 2004. Best, - Eric -