World’s slimmest mobile phone?

The unique Smart Surface Mounting Technology from Samsung squeezes features within a slim form. The U600 phone from Samsung comes with a thinness of 10.9 mm, with a 3.3 mega-pixel camera for ultra sharp images. The U600 mobile phone from Samsung is the replacement for Samsung D900 and is the first of second generation Ultra phones to hit the market, thereby also making it the slimmest phone available.

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November 24, 2007 | Filed Under Phones, Wireless | Leave a Comment

Google plans to bid for wireless network

Preparations are underway as Google plans to bid for wireless range in an auction to be held in U.S in January, but it needs a carrier partner who could help in building a network to use it, analysts said on Friday.

The spectrum called as 700 MHZ band is currently in use for TV broadcasts. It will be freed for other uses such as operating mobile telecommunications network, by 2009.The U.S Federal communications commission is planning to use that spectrum on Jan 24, and bidders must participate by Dec 3.

The company plans to finance the bid alone, without any partners according to the reports in The Wall street Journal.

Google said it would obligate US$4.6 billion to bid for a license, if the FCC set certain conditions. The conditions may include granting people the freedom to choose what network they want to use on phones they buy, and also granting freedom to service providers to connect with those networks.

Google does not intend to make money from operating the network, though: its goal is to get its applications into more and more mobile phone users. It has taken necessary steps, offering some versions of its web applications to iPhone, and to promote its Android it has launched the Open Handset Alliance.

Analysts say that it is too much for Google to build a wireless network alone. But analysts are cynical of Google doing it alone. Guess, the company should look for partners as it does have in the handset market.

Bill Ho, the senior analyst at current analysis said that a carrier partner was essential in building and running a network. He said that the core issue was the operation and maintenance of the new network.

Some analysts suggest that if Google could partner, it could choose Sprint, as the two have already agreed to partner on Wimax services.

Partnering with Google could be a great deal for an experienced operator not yet present in the U.S to enter the market, suggested Dawson, vice president at market analyst Ovum Ltd. “Anything other than search at the minute seems like a move in the wrong direction,” said Dawson.

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November 17, 2007 | Filed Under Tech News, Wireless | Leave a Comment