28/8  MoveU Mobile, Universal Music Mobile Phones

Category: Mobile Market    By editor at 18:48
After Migros and Coop now Universal offers it's own phone:
Universal Music to launch own handsets
Singletouch Interactive, the US-based MVNE (mobile virtual network enabler), has announced an agreement with Universal Music to provide the media company with customised handsets and a range of content and services. The deal includes handsets branded by Universal as ‘MoveU Mobile’, as well as devices designed to promote individual artists signed to the Universal label. Singletouch claims to have already sold 7,000 handsets branded by Hilary Duff, the US teen singer.



28/8  Convergence Phones for Corporate Users This Year

Category: Nokia    By editor at 17:02
Convergence Networks
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Nokia Introduces Phones For Converged Services
Nokia Corp. (NOK) plans to have phones that can switch between mobile and fixed networks available for consumers next year, as telecoms operators increasingly try to woo customers with converged services. The world's largest handset maker will start selling a dual-network phone targeted at corporate users this year, and one for consumers is due in the first half of 2006, Olli-Pekka Lintula, director of strategic marketing at the technology platforms division, told Dow Jones Newswires.

"All future phones for enterprises from Nokia will also be wi-fi equipped," Lintula said.

[...] By 2009 Nokia forecasts that there will be just over 100 million wi-fi enabled phones globally, up from a few million this year.
See also:
Nokia and Kineto Collaborating in UMA Technology for Fixed-Mobile Convergence