Esato News Archive

Amp'd Jet Mobile
Amp’d Mobile and Kyocera Wireless Corp announced the Jet, an affordable high-speed EV-DO (Evolution Data Optimized) handset for rapid downloading of Amp’d’s unique 3G content launching later this year.

MP3 player Phone with a Touch Screen Menu
Hop-On's Model 1886 is a tri-band handset with a touch screen menu, MP3 player, 2 Megapixel CMOS camera and Mpeg 4 video recorder.

Introducing “Q” from Motorola
The world’s thinnest, lightest QWERTY phone is a seamless fusion of QWERTY and phone delivering a fully-loaded package of email, voice, and entertainment in one amazingly rich but thin device.

In Cinema Movie Content Downloads via Bluetooth
Twentieth Century Fox, Vue Cinemas and WideRay Limited have teamed to offer, for the first time ever in the U.K,an in-theatre mobile phone promotion enabling customers to download movie trailers and wallpapers all related to two of Fox's hottest summer releases directly to their Bluetooth-enabled mobile phones.

World’s first animated mobile buddy
Mobeon, the leading messaging company, has unveiled the world’s first 3G video messaging interface featuring mobile buddies.

Microsoft Unveils Official Name for “Longhorn”
Today Microsoft announced the official name of its next-generation Windows operating system, formerly code-named “Longhorn."

New York City Department of Consumer Affairs sues major wireless companies for deceptive cell phone advertising
New York City Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) Acting Commissioner Jonathan Mintz today announced the agency has filed suit in New York Supreme Court against three major wireless companies for pitching cell phones and services in deceptive advertisements that misled consumers

Bar-code scanning phones
Bar-code scanning will be a common camera-phone feature in the near future, in the next 12 months 50 million to 60 million camera phones to hit the market with bar-code scanning technology.

Sharp Ferrari Edition V302SH
Vodafone K.K. today announces that in mid-August 2005 it plans to offer a new handset, the V302SH by Sharp.

Sony Ericsson Gains Momentum in the Second Quarter
The consolidated financial summary for Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB (Sony Ericsson) for the second quarter ended June 30, 2005 is as follows:

Helping to Control Mobile Spam
This flagship product will help UK consumers to control mobile spam, by enabling them to identify the source of marketing messages sent as texts to their handset, via a dedicated self-care portal.

Fantastic Four Suite Of Mobile Products
MFORMA has launched a suite of mobile products based on FANTASTIC 4.The suite of Fantastic 4 products includes a mobile game plus wallpapers, cell phone themes, voice tones, ring tones and ring backs based on defining scenes and voice clips from the movie.

$20 Production Cost for new Mobile Platform
Around 3.5 billion people now living in areas with mobile phone coverage cannot afford their own mobile phone. But this could soon change. With a chip platform for ultra low-cost handsets.

SonyEricsson K750i wins photographic award
The photographic industry has its own 'Oscars', which serve as outstanding marketing tools for their proud winners.The Sony Ericsson K750i won the new mobile imaging device category.

Mobile Banking to be Launched in the U.K
LINK, the operators of the UK cash machine network, and Morse Plc, today announced that mobileATM™, their jointly developed mobile banking service, is currently being integrated into a number of UK banks and building societies. The service will be available to consumers before the end of 2005.

3 brings Atkins 2Go on Mobile
Digital Chocolate, a developer of software for mobile phones, has teamed up with video mobile network 3 to bring Atkins2Go to mobile for the first time in Europe.

Help out in a crisis - with ICE
A Cambridge-based paramedic has launched a national campaign with Vodafone to encourage people to store emergency contact details in their mobile phones.

Siemens Develops GSM Solution for Aircraft
Siemens has signed an exclusive contract with Airbus to jointly develop a solu­tion for the use of in-flight communication via GSM.

Siemens Unveils SK65 Wooden mobile Phone
Mobile technology meets individual style: The SK65 Burlwood is overlaid with wood from the thuya tree.

NTT DoCoMo Prototype Micro Fuel Cell
NTT DoCoMo announced today that the company together with Fujitsu Laboratories has developed a new and improved prototype methanol fuel cell for 3G FOMA handsets.

NSK 200 Secure GSM/DECT phone approved for NATO SECRET
As such, it is the first GSM phone system offering protection up to and including the classification level NATO SECRET.

Motorola Announces Availability of Push-To-Talk for Symbian Mobile Devices
Motorola today announced the availability of its commercial Push-To-Talk over Cellular Clients for Symbian and UIQ mobile devices.

GSM Association promotes cheap phones for developing world
GSMA today announced a new phase for the initiative with an Invitation to Strategic Partnership issued to handset manufacturers for the supply of the next Ultra-Low Cost handset, to connect the unconnected in developing markets.