SIM cards exceed 2.9 billion shipments
April 21, 2009 by Jayvee Fernandez
Filed under 3G
Interesting — the SIMposium 2009 summit has just announced the sales figures for SIM card shipments and sales for 2008. The figures put SIM cards at 2.9 billion units shipped with focus on the emerging markets in Asia. GSM technology is far more common in the Asia-Pacific region.
What’s also interesting is that 3G SIM cards make up 14% of total shipments and the memory size of SIM cards have increased to store more data (i.e. contacts and value added services from telcos) by 11%.
LG Lotus Photos and Specs
January 9, 2009 by Jayvee Fernandez
Filed under LG
It doesn’t have WiFi, but that doesn’t mean it’s a bad phone. The LG Lotus will be out this 2009. The square-ishly designed Lotus sports a bright screen with 65k colors, Bluetooth, a 2MP camera, 80MB of internal memory, and SDHC expansion support. The phone comes with a QWERTY keypad and looks extremely beautiful. It will be available in CDMA networks such as Sprint.
So do you like it? Pictured here is the more eccentric purple one as compared to the plain black model. The design leaves a lot for fancy conversation. I personally like it, from an aesthetic approach but …read more
Consumer watch: The “wireless landline” provider debate
March 12, 2008 by Jayvee Fernandez
Filed under Mobile Monitor
Back here we have three major telcos (Globe, SMART, SUN) on GSM and one that runs on a CDMA network. The latter, called Bayan Telecommunications dominates the “wireless landline” market by releasing CDMA based landlines without wires made by HUAWEI and some cellphones that also run on CDMA.
