Nokia Corporation announced the Nokia Lumia 925 smartphone on Tuesday. The Lumia 925 has a metal-finished design and works very well in low lighting. The Lumia 925 has a new AMOLED display and has advances in PureView imaging technology for capturing sharp pictures.
LG Electronics and China Mobile has showcased the first TD-LTE capable smartphone at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. The TD-LTE smartphone demo at MWC was done on a modified LG Optimus G smartphone.
Steve Jobs is rumored to be meeting with China Mobile Ltd representatives to officially bring the iPhone to the network. TechCrunch reports that China Mobile is the world’s largest mobile operator and already has more than 7 million iPhone users on its network. If the talks are real and successful, China Mobile may soon sell and officially support iPhones.
According to Jefferies & Co. analyst Peter Misek, the Apple iPhone 5 is unlikely to have LTE functionality. Misek also said that the iPhone device that is expected to launch in September should be called the iPhone 4S. And if his sources are correct, Apple will announced that the iPhone 4S will be available on Sprint, T-Mobile, and China Mobile.
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Ericsson has announced a deal with China Mobile and China Unicom that is worth $1.8 billion. Ericsson will provide China Unicom with a faster 3G network. Ericsson will also provide China Mobile equipment to boost their capacity for mobile networks. “The signing of the significant frame agreements is a manifestation of our continued strong co-operation with our Chinese customers,” stated Ericsson head of China Mats Olsson. [BBC]
China Mobile will be paying $5.8 billion for 20% of Shanghai Pudong Development Bank. China Mobile will develop mobile e-commerce and finance businesses with Pudong as a result of the deal. China Mobile will buy about 2.2 billion Pudong bank shares at about 18.03 yuan. This is a discount of 13% to Pudong bank’s shares from Feb. 25. [NYT]
Motorola, Inc. (NYSE:MOT) will soon start selling a phone that is similar to the Droid in China. However the phone will be using China’s 3G standard and the China Mobile operating system. This means it will be based on the Android operating system, modified by China Mobile. The Droid uses the newest Google mobile operating system without much modification.
The 3G mobile standard used in China is called TD-SCDMA (Time Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access). It will also have support for wireless LANs (not specifically WiFi). The MT710 will not have a slide out keyboard, it is purely touchscreen. The built in camera is 5 megapixels. The actual name that will be used for the device in China is the Motorola MT710 Zhiling. Zhiling means “intelligent” and “leader.” China Mobile currently has about 510 million subscribers.
Dell Inc. (NASDAQ:DELL) has implemented the Google Android operating system in a new mobile phone that they are launching in China and Brazil. China Mobile and Claro will be selling the Dell Mini 3 very soon. The Dell Mini 3 is the company’s first smartphone and the specs are mum for now.
