"Made in India" phones set to tap global markets
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India, already the world&#039;s fastest  growing wireless services market, is set to become a handset  manufacturing and export hub as giants such as Nokia and LG  churn out millions of phones to tap voracious demand.
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Consumers demand the best on their phones. Here's what they can expect.
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As part of an effort to boost its presence in North America, the handset maker is planning a family of Windows Mobile devices, starting with a business-oriented device due this summer.
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With mobile phone markets nearly saturated in the developed world, network operators and handset manufacturers are turning their attention to the fertile ground of emerging countries.
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Altimo wants to expand by buying phone assets in Asia and Western Europe.
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NTT DoCoMo, top mobile phone carrier in Japan, and Motorola Inc., worldâs number two cell-phone maker, plans to develop third-generation cell phones that allow subscribers in Japan to use services in other parts of Asia and Europe.
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China's largest telecoms equipment firm, ZTE, plans to expand globally by targeting the markets of Africa and India.
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(InfoWorld) - Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson believes companies will be able to make 3G (third generation) mobile phones for as little as $70 next year as component makers step up their efforts to simplify the handsets, an executive said. The low-cost 3G handset would likely allow users to browse the Internet, and use messaging and voice services, according to Sean Gowran, president of Ericsson Taiwan. Low-cost handsets have been aÂ buzzword in the industryÂ for the past few years as a way to tune more people into the existing global GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) wireless network. The GSM Association (GSMA) has evenÂ launched a contestÂ to inspire mobile phone makers to create a low-cost 3G handset, an idea similar to their contest a year ago aimed at producing a GSM handset for under $30.Â Motorola won that contest. Demand for the low cost GSM phonesÂ has been brisk in emerging markets such as China and India this year, where mobile phone use is growing at frantic pace. India recently announced its strongest month ever for wireless subscriber growth, at 6.71 million people in October. The figure brings its total to 136.22 million subscribers, up from 75.9 million at the end of last year, according to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India. By 2010, there will be 405 million mobile phone subscribers in India, according to market researcher iSuppli, thanks to ultra-low-cost handsets. In China, theÂ number of wireless handset usersÂ climbed to 449.02 million at the end of October, up from 393 million at the end of last year, according to the Ministry of Information Industry, that country's telecom industry regulator. Ericsson believes that efforts to reduce costs have had a big impact on the mobile phone industry. Cheaper components, and fewer components will be vital to efforts to develop a $70 3G handset. "The number of components is dropping dramatically," said Gowran. Fewer components reduces manufacturing complexity and can allow handset makers to reduce materials costs. The difference between a low-cost 3G handset and a high-end one will be huge, he said. An advanced handset with all the latest features, smart phone computing capabilities, the latest digital camera functions, multimedia applications with plenty of memory and the ability to use push mail and mobile TV will still be more expensive at around $500. Gowran also clarified that the $70 target is not an end-user price, but a cost-to-make price, and that Ericsson would not be producing such phones since it does not build mobile handsets anymore. The Sony Ericsson Mobile CommunicationsÂ joint venture with Sony took over all Ericsson handset production, and Gowran said he could not speak on behalf of the company. The original talk regarding low-cost 3G handsets was given by Robert Puskaric, the head of the mobile platforms division at Ericsson, at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Telecom World 2006 conference in Hong Kong. The exhibition runs through Friday.
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Strong demand for low-cost phones in Africa, the Middle East and Asia lifted the companyâs share of the global market to almost 40 percent.
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InfoWorld - India&#8217;s mobile handset production is growing fast, fueled by rapid growth in the number of mobile subscribers in the country.
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New handsets from the mobile phones global leader will have hard disk to store more songs and pictures in a move to tap the rapidly growing smartphone market.
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Countries like India could become a source of profit, a panel of wireless industry figures says.
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The maker of mobile phones said a push into emerging markets drove handset sales to a record.
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Major handset vendors have much more  to gain than to lose from the buzz Apple Inc's  coveted  iPhone will create when it arrives in European stores for the  key shopping season ahead of Christmas.
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The company said it has benefited from growing demand for handsets that work on the new higher-speed networks being introduced by carriers in the U.S., Europe and Asia.
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Strong demand for replacement handsets in western Europe and the US helped push global mobile phone sales to 156.4 million units in the second quarter of 2004, a 35 per cent increase from the second quarter of 2003, new research has claimed.
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India produced nearly 31 million mobile phones last year, at a value of about $5 billion.