Press Release Summary: Mobile phone operator 3, a subsidiary of Hutchison Whampoa Ltd (0013.HK), recently unveiled a Skype phone that allows customers to make free internet calls outside of the home. 3 thus became the first mobile operator that provides VoIP service based on mobile phones in global market.
Press Release Body: Mobile phone operator 3, a subsidiary of Hutchison Whampoa Ltd (0013.HK), recently unveiled a Skype phone that allows customers to make free internet calls outside of the home. 3 thus became the first mobile operator that provides VoIP service based on mobile phones in global market. The debut of the Skype phone is a milestone in industry, signaling that telecommunication operators are answering challenges from the World Wide Web filed, and the integration of mobile network and Internet telephony is developing with irresistible force.
The Skype phone, developed by 3 and Skype in partnership with Qualcomm, uses Qualcomm's Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless (BREW) platform to enable Skype to work with core handset features such as address book and messaging. It is made by Chinese manufacturer, indicating that Chinese mobile phone manufacturing industry is prepared for the mobile network + Internet telephony tendency.
The PT/EXPO COMM China 2007, a mobile technology and products exposition just concluded in Beijing, is also a manifestation of the tendency. At the EXPO, many exhibitors highlighted GPS mobile phones, bringing a clear signal for the whole industry-the integration of GPS navigation and mobile phone is gaining popularity and importance. Amoi president Li Xiaozhong gave a demonstration of Amoi's newest GPS intelligence mobile phone N800 and N810. The two handsets use Microsoft Windows Mobile 6 as the operating system. Dopod also brought two products based on the same operating system--P800 and P860 mobile phone. It is believed that, with the development of mobile network and internet telephony, more and more mobile operators will allow Skype on their phone networks and great convenience will be brought into our daily life with the integration of mobile network and internet telephony.
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