iPhone and Mobile Telecom in the Pacific Rim
Posted in China Mobile, TD-SCDMA on Dec 17th, 2009
Update – December 17, 2009: During today’s quarterly earnings call, Research in Motion unveiled a distribution deal with China Telecom. RIM also announced that they shipped 10.1 million BlackBerry units in latest quarter. Color me jaded (and iPhone biased) betcha RIM’s record shipments were pumped up by their their seemingly perpetual “buy one, get one free” promos. December 8, [...]
Posted in China Mobile, TD-SCDMA, Uncategorized on Jul 20th, 2009
China Mobile has unveiled plans to promote their 3G network – Time Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access (TD-SCDMA). In partnership with 10 handset manufacturers, China Mobile plans to deliver (by year end) 18 new TD-SCDMA handsets running an Android-based mobile operating system. This new OS will be custom designed to promote China Mobile’s wireless [...]
Posted in China Mobile, TD-SCDMA on May 25th, 2009
In the last quarter of 2008, China Mobile announced plans to develop OPhone, their own Android-based operating system in partnership with select handset manufacturers such as Levono, HTC and Nokia. “OPhone” is a codename for phones that will be based on China Mobile’s OMS (Open Mobile System) which is essentially re-coded Android + TD-SCDMA [...]
Posted in 3G, China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, iPhone in China, TD-SCDMA on Mar 9th, 2009
iPhonAsia comment: Cindy Geng of Interfax has provided timely reports on the iPhone in China negotiations. See iPhonAsia reply to post below by Cindy Geng Beijing. March 6. INTERFAX-CHINA – EXCERPT: The chairman of China Unicom has confirmed that the operator is holding talks with Apple over officially introducing the iPhone to China, while rival [...]
Posted in China Mobile, TD-SCDMA on Mar 7th, 2009
iPhonAsia comment: Why is the most dominant wireless carrier in the world (China Mobile with 463 million subscribers) dolling out R&D money to handset makers to build TD-SCDMA phones? Especially to the gargantuan Nokia who has dominant marketshare in China (40% of handset sales in China are Nokia) and has much (literally) invested in maintaining [...]
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