French's mobile telephony market has created at least 100,000 direct and indirect jobs. According to the French Association of Mobile Operators, invesment in this sector has reached €33 billion, while the size of the market reached almost €22 billion in 2007. continued »

Samsung announced today the availability of the Samsung Soul, the "ultimate essence of mobile" will be available from April 21. The Soul will be available through major European mobile operators and in most open markets supporting GSM. The Samsung Soul is the completion of the Samsung’s renowned Ultra Edition line of handsets, demonstrating Samsung’s leadership in both technology and ... continued »

FCC has just unveiled a new HP iPAQ smartphone for the 900 series this week. The FCC documents do not reveal its model number and carrier info, but it might be the HP iPAQ 910 for AT&T network. Will a typical Blackberry messaging phone design, the new iPAQ smartphone has a QWERTY keyboard and a complete wireless solutions. With the 900 series ... continued »

Samsung has been wowing Dutch telecoms press with a number of previously unannounced handsets at the recent Televisie 2008 exhibition, with three UMTS devices garnering particular attention.  Curiously, one - here labelled the i900 - appears to be a European version of the US handset of the same name, only running Windows Mobile 6.1 rather than Samsung's own OS.  Triband ... continued »

China is often described as the next big market for cellular technology, but consumers there will likely have to wait a while longer before they can get 3G service on their handsets.  According to Jonathan Dharmapalan, a partner at Ernst & Young and head of the company's global telecommunications centre in Beijing, the rollout and licencing of China's home-grown TD-SCDMA ... continued »