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alexander

Joined: Jun 13, 2002
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From: Sweden
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Posted: 2003-02-14 19:49

According to DI.se (major Swedish financial magazine) Sony Ericsson will have a press conference on Monday. There have been some rumours about a SE-phone for the 3G-network.

(Sorry if this already have been posted)

ts_666

Joined: Feb 21, 2002
Posts: 301
From: SWEDEN (actually UK now)
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Posted: 2003-02-14 19:52

lets hope thats true.... don't care much about the 3g phone, cause its still to far away, but am eager to see the t68 teplacement, t610 or whatever...

jh67

Joined: Nov 30, 2001
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From: denmark
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Posted: 2003-02-14 20:08

Hmm,..there should be a replacement, from what I know

Don't know anything else besides that.

Regards

Jan

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Jison

Joined: Jul 01, 2002
Posts: 356
From: Sweden
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Posted: 2003-02-17 08:57

Been waiting for one

t68i.2jison.com

jkirimis

Joined: Feb 17, 2003
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Posted: 2003-02-17 09:23

New phones? for today? Don't think so!

I went over at 3GSMs site and had a look at the list of exhibitors! SE was not in the list!!! So I don't think that we will be seeing any new phones today.
I hope that I am wrong but...

Get a life, get a Mac!

senninha

Joined: Jan 05, 2003
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Posted: 2003-02-17 09:28

maybe this is what they meant. it just came in...

NOKIA PRESS RELEASE

February 17, 2003

Ericsson, Nokia and Siemens join forces to promote unified solution
for push to talk over GPRS and EDGE networks

Based on the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), push to talk combines
direct-call functions with the world's most successful cellular
system

Ericsson, Nokia and Siemens are jointly defining specifications for
an open standard to speed the adoption of direct-call push to talk
service over GPRS. Push to talk is a cost-efficient, simple to use
direct voice service for GPRS-based systems that has attracted the
interest of leading operators. The technology uses the capabilities
of the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) as specified by 3GPP for
enabling IP connections between mobile phones. Initial trials are
expected to begin in the second half of 2003.

The specifications created through this collaboration will be
submitted to relevant industry bodies in order to create a standard
that will avoid fragmentation and establish a unified push to talk
over GPRS market with the same economies of scale that made GSM a
global success. The interoperable technology resulting from this
work will allow mobile phones and networks to be used for push to
talk communication using a variety of radio access networks.

Ericsson, Nokia and Siemens are also inviting mobile network
operators and other manufacturers to join them in creating an open,
multi-vendor market for push to talk in the GSM evolution path
(GSM/GPRS/EDGE/WCDMA) by developing products and services based on
the open standard they are defining.

"AT&T Wireless supports this joint initiative. Our goal is to
connect our customers to the people and information they care most
about," said Rod Nelson, CTO of AT&T Wireless, "This new service,
which will open to a broad audience, is another way to connect and is
an example of how the scale and flexibility of GSM/GPRS/EDGE leads to
new and cost effective services."

Cingular Wireless is in support of this cooperation and is evaluating
push to talk technology for its customers. "We are always looking for
new service offerings like push to talk, that allow our customers to
quickly and simply connect to others" said Mike Dobbs, Vice President
of Product Management at Cingular. "The standards-based approach
taken by these manufacturers will allow carriers to ultimately
deliver this service to the largest market in the most efficient and
effective way."

"This collaboration will ensure that push to talk builds on the
future proofed and standardized third generation core network IMS,"
says Dr. Jan Uddenfeldt, Senior Vice President Technology, Ericsson.
"It will only have to be integrated once and is easily maintained,
which brings great cost benefits to the operators. It demonstrates
the importance of open standards for which Ericsson has always been a
strong proponent."

"Push to talk provides cellular operators with a completely new means
of connecting people," said Dr. J.T. Bergqvist, Executive Vice
President, Nokia. "It is an attractive option for instant voice
communication, complementing present dialed voices services. Push to
talk's immediate type of communications can reach individuals or
groups, and it can also be used to enable direct voice communication
with other IMS-based services, such as interactive gaming. GPRS and
3G mobile network operators, having more than 800 million customers
today, can easily implement push to talk capability with a low level
of additional investment to their existing networks."

"Push to talk services - to be deployed on existing GPRS and future
3G networks -- will provide great value to both business users and
consumers, and thus will help operators generate additional
revenues," reinforces Harry Strasser, CTO & Senior Vice President,
End-to-End Solutions, Siemens Information and Communication Mobile.
"These applications will enable operators to differentiate themselves
from other players in the increasingly competitive landscape of
mobile multimedia services. The IMS will provide the IP-based
control and will especially enable operators to leverage some of
their key strengths -- for example, location information and presence
-- to provide end-users with a truly new customer experience."

Notes to editors
Push to talk:
Push to talk service is a two-way form of communications that allows
users to engage in immediate communication with one or more
receivers, similar to Walkie Talkie -- simply by pushing a button on
their handsets. Users receiving the transmission hear the sender's
voice automatically without having to answer the call. Business
users like the fleet management communication between taxi drivers
and their dispatcher is one concrete example of such a use case.
Consumers benefit from push to talk service in coordinating
recreational and social activities (for example, families or friends
separated in a large ski resort or amusement park) representing a
huge market potential for the services. Previous implementations of
push to talk service in cellular networks have been based on
proprietary technology and on a limited scale. By bringing this
functionality to GSM, the world's most successful wireless technology
with over 800 million users in more than 190 countries, Ericsson,
Nokia and Siemens are helping to open the market and fuel push to
talk services with a truly global reach.

IMS:
IP Multimedia System (IMS) is a technology standardized by 3GPP. It
is a key development of the mobile communication into IP
technologies. It adds the ability to deliver integrated voice and
data services over the IP-based packet switched network. IMS adds
two fundamental capabilities on top of the packet switched domain;
firstly the ability to find a person via SIP to initiate a session,
and secondly the ability to integrate new revenue generating
services, such as push to talk. IMS offers a development environment
that is well aligned with mainstream IP technology, thereby lowering
the threshold for 3rd party application developers. By introducing
IMS and its services delivery capability, a step towards a common
service delivery environment is taken. Instead of providing a
complete service delivery infrastructure per service, a common
infrastructure can be used, facilitating a reduced time to revenue
and reduced cost (OPEX and CAPEX) for new service introduction.

totings

Joined: Sep 21, 2002
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Posted: 2003-02-17 09:46

Ummmm yeah.... Ok.... Whatever.... So wheres the new se phones? Hehe :-D

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Iceduck

Joined: Mar 18, 2002
Posts: 109
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Posted: 2003-02-17 09:58

It's not too early for 3G phones, not here in Denmark anyway. The 3G operators should have launched their networks a long time ago but apparently it has been delayed tons of times. They are obligated to have launched their 3G network by 2005 (as far as I know) but I think that we'll see the first active operators this year. The same probably goes for most other Nordic countries.
Btw, I said to myself when I bought my Nokia 3210 MANY years ago that this would probably be my last GSM phone before switching to 3G. Well, let's just say that I didn't expect to wait this long

thanasis