Nokia's Ovi App Store to Open in May

Nokia preview plans for its "Ovi" Store, which will offer consumers relevant, targeted media through their social connections and their physical location information. Nokia said its goal is to provide a scalable media distribution network unrivaled in size and opportunity, with advanced content targeting capabilities and monetization options that allow content providers and application developers to leverage the power of Nokia's global scale in devices....

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LSI Announces Multicore Blueprint for Mobiles

LSI is introducing an asymmetrical multicore architecture targeted at mobile networks based on the company's family of networking silicon and software. The blueprint calls for LSI to migrate current and future wireless products to a multicore architecture that encompasses traffic management, voice and video transcoding, content inspection, encryption, baseband and user plane processing.LSI said wireless equipment manufacturers are routinely faced...

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Qualcomm Adds Femtocell Chipsets to Roadmap

Qualcomm has added 3G femtocell chipsets to its product roadmap. The company will be offering Femtocell Station Modem chipsets supporting 3GPP HSPA+, in addition to utilizing CDMA2000, including 1X and EV-DO Rev. A and Rev. B. The chipsets will include baseband functions, network listen and integrated RF capabilities for all major wireless bands. The chipsets also will feature innovative techniques addressing the issue of interference between femtocells and the macro network. Sampling is currently scheduled for the second quarter of 2010. http...

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Motorola Debuts New GSM Base Station Controller

Motorola introduced its new GSM Base Station Controller (BSC), the Horizon 2G RAN controller, featuring approximately three times the capacity in a compact footprint which occupies about one tenth the floor space of current platforms. The unit is modular in design and scales to support over 2000 transceivers. It supports IP over the A-interface, which becomes increasingly important with the deployment of the latest data network capability, such as E-EDGE. In addition it incorporates Packet Control Unit (PCU) and Transcoder functionality in a...

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Qualcomm to Sample Multi-mode 3G/LTE Smartphone Chip in 2010

Qualcomm unveiled its first chipset solution for advanced Smartphones supporting CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Rev. B and Simultaneous Voice-Data Operation (SV-DO), as well as multi-carrier HSPA+ and LTE. The Mobile Station Modem (MSM) MSM8960 chipset is the industry's only complete integrated solution that supports all of the world's leading mobile broadband standards. The chipset is compatible with Smartphone platforms based on Qualcomm's other MSM8x60 chipsets and is scheduled to sample in mid-2010."Multi-mode 3G/LTE chipsets will be crucial to smooth deployments...

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LG to Use Qualcomm MEMS for Energy-Efficient Displays

LG Electronics will begin the development of handsets with energy-efficient displays based on Qualcomm's mirasol MEMS technology. Qualcomm said tis nature-inspired mirasol display consumes significantly less power than other display technologies, extending handset battery life and enabling consumers to enjoy greater mobility. Based on reflective technology, Qualcomm's mirasol displays harness ambient light to create color across a broad range of...

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NVIDIA Enables The World's First $99 HD Mobile Internet Device

NVIDIA introduced a new processor aimed at a new generation of always-on, always-connected HD mobile internet device (MID) that can go days between battery charges. NVIDIA believes OEMS will be able to build MIDs that carriers can offer for as low as $99 with a broadband service. The Tegra MID will support 720p and 1080p video playback, offer Wi-Fi and 3G, and will be optimized for Web 2.0. In addition, NVIDIA partnered with ST-Ericsson to add...

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Broadcom Supports Adobe Flash Lite Content Delivery on Mobile Phones

Broadcom has integrated the Adobe Flash Platform into its advanced multimedia processor system-on-a- chip (SoC) solution. This provides accelerated viewing of Flash content. Specifically, Adobe Flash Lite 3.1 software acceleration is now supported in the Broadcom BCM2727 mobile multimedia processor enabling mobile phone users to quickly access and view Flash based content and applications from popular online providers and entertainment sites. http://www.broadcom....

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Marvell's Bluetooth/Wi-Fi Single Chip Offers New Models

Marvell is now supporting an open software architecture for its Wi-Fi/Bluetooth single chip products. The open environment enables a variety of software features, such s a mobile hotspot mode that can be used to transform any CE device with an Internet connection into a wireless hotspot. This feature is optimized for very low power consumption on battery- powered CE devices.The Marvell 88W8688 also supports BT-AMP (Alternate MAC-PHY), which allows the Bluetooth radio in the Marvell 88W8688 to deliver 10 to 15 times the bandwidth of standard Bluetooth...

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Mobile World Congress Barcelona: Mobiles Can Drive Economic Growth

The mobile industry is calling upon governments to adopt policies that encourage more investment in mobile services and networks. Wherever possible, governments should seek to create a stable regulatory environment, while licensing spectrum on the right terms to encourage spending on network infrastructure and services, stimulating economic growth. It is also important that governments allocate the same spectrum as other governments in their region...

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Orange Offers LG Touch Watch Phone

Orange plans to offer the LG Touch Watch phone in its European markets. The compact wrist watch style phone comes with a Bluetooth headset and features a full touch-screen interface, 3G HSDPA and video-calling capabilities. It features 7.2 Mbps 3G HSDPA compatibility, enabling high-speed data and video phone calls using the built-in camera. The Watch Phone is fully capable of sending text messages, making phone calls, and, keeping accurate time....

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Fujitsu Microelectronics Develops New WiMAX Baseband SOC

Fujitsu Microelectronics America introduced its newest Mobile WiMAX baseband IC, a low-power, small- footprint device designed for the expanding mobile PC market. The new Fujitsu MB86K23 mobile WiMAX baseband IC supports a wide range of channel bandwidths including 3.5MHz, 5MHz, 7MHz, 10MHz, and 20MHz, along with 64QAM, 16QAM, and QPSK adaptive modulation schemes. It provides wireless access using 512/1024/2048 FFT OFDMA with integrated MAC processors,...

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Microsoft and Partners Show New Windows Phones

Microsoft and key mobile partners, HTC, LG and Orange, unveiled new Windows phones based on Windows Mobile 6.5 and featuring a new user interface and a richer browsing experience. In addition, Windows phones will feature two new services: My Phone, to sync text messages, photos, video, contacts and more to the Web; and Windows Marketplace for Mobile, a new marketplace that will provide direct-to-phone mobile applications and can be accessed from...

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Microsoft Reaches Deal with America Movil for Services Across Latin America

America Movil agreed to adopt and deploy a suite of Windows Live mobile services for its 172 million customers across Latin America. Through this deal, America Movil will make it easier for its customers to extend the Windows Live and MSN experience from the PC to their mobile phone through its mobile Internet browser, text messages and client-based applications. Financial terms were not disclosed.The Windows Live mobile services included in the agreement are Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live Hotmail and Windows Live Spaces. America Movil...

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Microsoft and Gemalto Partner on Mobile Live Messenger SIM Security

Microsoft and Gemalto are collaborating to offer Windows Live Messenger services to the mass market of mobile subscribers through a new Windows Live Messenger client application that comes pre-installed on phone Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) cards. The Gemalto application, named SIMessenger, is the world's first Microsoft-certified instant messaging SIM client solution.Gemalto's SIMessenger enables users to keep in touch with their Windows Live Messenger contacts from their mobile phone. To date, three operators have successfully deployed SIMessenger:...

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ZTE Unveils HSPA+ Data Cards

ZTE announced the launch of two innovative cards as part of its high speed packet access (HSPA) product family. The MF662 is a compact HSDPA+ data card and the MF645 is a USB TV data card, allowing viewers to watch digital TV from a laptop over the mobile broadband connection.The MF662 offers download and upload rates of up to 21.6Mbps (up from 14.4Mbps on HSPA) and 5.76Mbps, respectively.ZTE's MF645 is described as the world's smallest TV data card, and is believed to be the world's first plug-and-play data card. This USB modem enables consumers...

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Samsung Partners with Sandbridge on LTE-capable Platform

Samsung will showcase several LTE devices at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona that are powered by Sandbridge's SB3500 flexible baseband processor -- a multi-core, multi-threaded, dynamically reprogrammable processor. Development for the LTE communication system was led by Samsung, with Sandbridge providing technical support. The implementation resulted in the development and execution of a fully compliant LTE platform conforming to the latest 3GPP Release 8 standardization. The Sandbridge platform, ideal for new OFDMA based standards (Mobile...

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Alcatel-Lucent Receives WiMAX 3.5GHz Certification

Alcatel-Lucent has received the WiMAX Forum Certified seal of approval for the 3.5GHz band version of its WiMAX Rev-e (802.16-2005 standard) compact base station. Alcatel-Lucent noted that out of 34 Alcatel-Lucent Rev-e commercial deployments worldwide, 21 are in the 3.5GHz band, and seven of these are already in commercial service. Key to its commercial success has been implementation of advanced technologies such as beam forming, which extends cell range and thus reduces operators' deployment costs.Alcatel-Lucent's 2.5GHz base station portfolio...

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Alcatel-Lucent Readies LTE Base Station Upgrade

Alcatel-Lucent introduced a key software module for its enhanced NodeB (eNodeB) solution. The software, which is currently in trials with tier-one service providers, can be loaded onto the Alcatel-Lucent 9326 Digital 2U eNode B - a "zero footprint" baseband module already widely deployed and field-proven with Alcatel-Lucent's 3G customers. This baseband module integrates easily into existing base station cabinets, enabling a seamless evolution to LTE via software-only upgrade. Alcatel-Lucent said its LTE solution complies with the latest 3GPP...

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Alcatel-Lucent Completes Multi-Vendor LTE Calls in TDD Spectrum

Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell completed a series of data calls - involving terminals from third-party suppliers - using Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology for Time Division Duplex (TDD) spectrum (TD-LTE), a mobile broadband standard that will be used by operators in China. The tests, the first such calls completed using infrastructure (Alcatel-Lucent's commercial eNode B base station) and terminals from multiple vendors (UTStarcom and Signalion), involved live video streaming and web browsing services on TD-LTE."TD-LTE, which was strongly driven...

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Nielsen: Mobile Internet Will Grow Dramatically Despite Economic Downturn

A Nielsen survey of over 50,000 U.S. and European consumers gives the telecom industry reasons to be optimistic. Consumers intend to significantly increase use of mobile data services over the next two years -- with a significant ramp-up in the next 12 months.The Tellabs-commissioned survey shows that up to 71% of consumers anticipate daily use of services such as mobile Internet. Yet mobile users continue to raise concerns about cost, speed and...

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Orange and HP Partnership Focuses on Mobile Broadband

Orange has formed a new partnership signed with Hewlett Packard under which the companies will co-distribute and market a range of consumer notebooks and HP Minis with mobile and/or fixed broadband access. The three-year pan-European agreement will underpin the delivery of connected offers in the UK, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria and Portugal, to be followed by a rollout across the Orange footprint.Among the offers is the new new Compaq Mini 700 which, in the UK, allows customers to buy a ready to use Internet connected notebook for GBP30 a month....

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Ericsson Launches Pixl8r and Social Media Portal

Ericsson is backing a new Pixl8r initiative and Social Media Portal to help mobile users share content across diverse networks.The Pixl8r initiative is an open-standard solution that allows photo sharing sites to interact in real time. With Pixl8r, mobile subscribers can share social media across different operator portals and receive SMS notification of friends' activities regardless of network. Ericsson said Pixl8r would create a federation of community portals that can connect the world's about four billion mobile users.With Ericsson's Social...

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Alcatel-Lucent Launches ng Connect Program

Alcatel-Lucent is kicking off a multi-industry initiative -- the ng Connect Program -- with the aim of establishing a rich and diverse ecosystem of infrastructure, devices, content and applications for both mobile and fixed broadband networks including 4G, Long Term Evolution (LTE), GPON and other ultra high bandwidth technologies. The goal is to extend a seamless broadband experience to mobile phones, computers, cars, gaming systems and more, enabling...

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