Samsung Launches M5650 Music Phone

Following on the launch of the Corby(S3650), the Samsung M5650 further strengthens Samsung’s offering for digitally savvy young users who seek colorful and bold designs, easy connectivity and great functionality.

Tailored for music lovers, the Samsung M5650 is equipped with a one-touch key for listening to your favorite tunes on top of all the diverse features of the Corby, which swept the global market with sales of 3.5 million units within two months of its launch in September.

The Samsung M5650’s bold design emphasizes the same contoured exterior as seen in the Corby, adding curved edges on its reverse side to maximizing its smooth and sophisticated feel.

In addition, the Samsung M5650 offers enhanced social networking features for those who are actively digitally connected through means such as e-mail, instant messaging and blogs. Additionally, the Samsung M5650 allows quick access to MySpace, Facebook and Twitter, and the ability to easily upload photos and videos.

Offering 3G connectivity, the Samsung M5650 comes with a full range of features such as WiFi, a 3-megapixel camera, FM radio, MP3 player, USB 2.0, Bluetooth, One Finger Zoom and a Cartoon UI.

“We are always looking for ways to satisfy the next generation of mobile phone users,” said Younghee Lee, Vice President of Marketing for the Mobile Communications Division of Samsung Electronics. “The Samsung M5650 builds on the appeal of our popular Corby with exciting new music functions and speedy 3G connectivity, expanding our product lineup of hip and trendy mobile phones for young consumers.”

Samsung M5650 is currently available in Portugal and soon expand to other Europe markets, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Africa, India and China. The battery cover is available in blue or black.

Source: Samsung


Tailored for music lovers, the Samsung M5650 is equipped with a one-touch key for listening to your favorite tunes on top of all the diverse features of the Corby, which swept the global market with sales of 3.5 million units within two months of its launch in September.

The Samsung M5650’s bold design emphasizes the same contoured exterior as seen in the Corby, adding curved edges on its reverse side to maximizing its smooth and sophisticated feel.

In addition, the Samsung M5650 offers enhanced social networking features for those who are actively digitally connected through means such as e-mail, instant messaging and blogs. Additionally, the Samsung M5650 allows quick access to MySpace, Facebook and Twitter, and the ability to easily upload photos and videos.

Offering 3G connectivity, the Samsung M5650 comes with a full range of features such as WiFi, a 3-megapixel camera, FM radio, MP3 player, USB 2.0, Bluetooth, One Finger Zoom and a Cartoon UI.

“We are always looking for ways to satisfy the next generation of mobile phone users,” said Younghee Lee, Vice President of Marketing for the Mobile Communications Division of Samsung Electronics. “The Samsung M5650 builds on the appeal of our popular Corby with exciting new music functions and speedy 3G connectivity, expanding our product lineup of hip and trendy mobile phones for young consumers.”

Samsung M5650 is currently available in Portugal and soon expand to other Europe markets, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Africa, India and China. The battery cover is available in blue or black.

Source: Samsung

Taiwan notebook maker Inventec plans China plant

Notebook computers seen on display at the World Congress on Information Technology in Kuala Lumpur. Taiwan's Inventec Corp, the world's fourth largest contract notebook computer maker, has said it will spend 800 million US dollars to build a plant in southwestern China.Taiwan's Inventec Corp, the world's fourth largest contract notebook computer maker, said Monday it will spend 800 million US dollars to build a plant in southwestern China. Inventec said in a statement it had signed an agreement for the five-year investment project with the government of Chongqing over the weekend.

Inventec said the Chongqing plant will become its second China manufacturing base after an existing plant in Shanghai.

In the initial phase of the investment, the Chongqing facility will focus on notebook computer manufacturing and then expand to servers, mobile communications and software production, Inventec said.

The Taiwanese company said it expects the Chongqing plant will create 10 billion dollars' worth of annual output five years after the investment is completed.

It was not clear from the statement when the plant would become operational, or whether it would be a joint venture. Inventec officials could not immediately be reached for comment.

Five Dutch operators buy into 2.6 GHz band

Visitors walk past Vodafone exhibition stand walls at the CeBIT fair on March 2010 in Germany. Five mobile operators, including Vodafone, now own portions of the Netherlands' new 2.6 Gigahertz frequency band, which allows for super-fast broadband, the Dutch telecommunications agency announced Monday.Five mobile operators now own portions of the Netherlands' new 2.6 Gigahertz frequency band, which allows for super-fast broadband, the DuAn online auction closed Monday with operators Ziggo, Tele 2, KPN, Vodafone and T-Mobile, acquiring frequency space for a total amount of 2.6 million euros (3.5 million dollars), it said in a statement.

"An important aim in issuing these licences is for the consumer to have as wide a choice as possible in (broadband) mobile communications," the agency, an entity of the economic ministry, said in a statement.

With the licences, valid until 2030, the agency said operators obtained frequencies in the 2.6 GHz band, "which is suitable for 4G" transmission, up to 10 times faster than existing options.

The newly licenced operators are obliged to roll out a network within two years, the statement said.

4G will allow users to receive multimedia such as TV broadcasts, web conferencing and online games at rates much faster then the current generation of networks.

Nordic telecom operator TeliaSonera in December announced the launch in Stockholm and Oslo of the world's first commercial 4G/LTE mobile network. tch telecommunications agency announced Monday.

Fiber-optic speeds achieved over copper lines

(PhysOrg.com) -- Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent's research arm, has demonstrated industry record broadband download speeds of up to 300 Megabits per second using two traditional twisted pair copper telephone lines. The achievement could extend the use of copper-based broadband networks, which are in wide use around the world, and it could provide another means of providing faster broadband in areFrench telecommunications giant Alcatel-Lucent said the speeds achieved would enable service providers to use the existing copper-based infrastructure to satisfy demand for fast broadband for home and business users for many years to come. Achieving faster speeds is important for Internet service providers who want to compete with the fundamentally different technology used by cable companies.

The demonstration used DSL (digital subscriber line) phantom mode, which was developed in 1986 as an analog telephony technique. This adds a “phantom” channel in addition to the two channels transmitted over a twisted pair copper telephone line. The positive half of the phantom is sent down one wire, and the negative half is sent down the other. Analog processors at the receiving end extract the two real signals and the phantom.

Phantom mode adds to the bandwidth but also introduces noise or “crosstalk” into the signal, and to cancel out this effect they used a “vectoring” technique. Bandwidth was also increased by a third technique called “bonding,” which treats the two lines in the twisted pair as if they were a single cable. Vectoring and bonding are standard means of increasing DSL broadband speed, but neither is widely used in the US.

The prototype technology achieved transmissions of 300 Megabits per second (Mbps) over 400 meters and up to 100 Mbps at up to one kilometer. Standard download speeds over ADSL using copper infrastructure are generally around 20 Mbps.

Head of Bell Labs research, Gee Rittenhouse, said in a company statement that DSL phantom mode is an important breakthrough because it “combines cutting-edge technology” with a business model that will enable service providers to offer the latest broadband services using the existing network infrastructure.

To use the new technique, the user must have two telephone lines already installed, and a modem designed to use the two lines.

Fast broadband speeds over copper lines were also demonstrated last year by Ericsson, who achieved transmission speeds of 500 Mbps, but their system used six bonded telephone lines, rather than the two in Alcatel-Lucent's prototype.as where fiber-optic and other cable technologies are unavailable.

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An Indian farmer talks on his mobile phone as he discusses pricing of oranges at the Kothapeta fruit market. India has blocked its fast-growing telecom sector from buying some Chinese-made equipment, an Indian mobile operator said Friday, in a move set to stoke trade tensions between the emerging giants.India has blocked its fast-growing telecom sector from buying some Chinese-made equipment, an Indian mobile operator said Friday, in a move set to stoke trade tensions between the emerging giants.An executive of a Indian mobile operator said his company had received a letter from the Indian government saying it could not buy equipment from UTStarcom, a US-based company that manufactures in China.

"We were told we could not buy equipment from UTStarcom. I believe most operators have received such letters," the executive of one of India's larger mobile operators, who asked not to be identified, told AFP.

A manager at UTStarcom, the leading provider of hardware for Internet television services in Asia, said he could not immediately comment.

Earlier Friday, a Chinese trade body complained telecom equipment makers in the country were being prevented from selling to Indian telecom companies on security grounds.

Last December, India said it was probing whether the use of Chinese-made telecom equipment in sensitive border and insurgency-hit areas could hurt national security.

A spokeswoman for the China Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of Machinery and Electronic Products Chinese industry group declined to identify the companies affected by New Delhi's restrictions.

But India's Business Line newspaper reported earlier in the week New Delhi had also told mobile operators not to import any equipment made by such Chinese vendors as Huawei Technologies and ZTE Corp.

Huawei on Friday expressed concern over the reports and called for "a fair and non-discriminatory policy" to address the issue of security clearance for its products.

The company, present in India for a decade 10 years, said it had received no official communication from the government and said it was "seeking clarifications from the concerned authorities".

Trade relations are already tense between the neighbours, with Indian firms complaining the country's market is being flooded with cheaper Chinese-made products.

India's mobile sector, the fastest-growing in the world with 15-20 million new subscribers each month, has become an important source of revenue for Chinese companies.