August 24, in Nanjing, China Telecom, “Tianyi 3G phone orders will”, the first time explicitly RIM in Canada and the United States will work with the two major smartphone manufacturer Palm co-operation.
This means that telecom users will be expected to spend rage in North America, BlackBerry and Palm handsets. Thus, in addition to part of the Japanese brands, the world’s front-line mobile phone makers to enter China 3G market, have been identified.
“Star Cell Phone” played during the year
According to Analysys International’s market monitoring report, the second quarter of this year, Telecom, Mobile and China Unicom were 131,000 sales of 3G mobile phones, 64000, and 47000, and only 3 of the total market share, equivalent to 0.7%. 3G market, poor performance prompted the three major operators, with the major terminal manufacturers to speed up the process of cooperation in order to strengthen their 3G mobile phone camp.
China Mobile betting that mobile phones running Android operating system 3GOPhone, in addition to Lenovo’s first listing of OPhone soon, the move also “draw” HTC HTC for the production of a variety of TD-SCDMA mobile phones. An atmosphere of urgency in the market, China Unicom with Apple’s announcement to enter the end of marathon negotiations, allegedly a three-year exclusive agreement was announced.
Despite the momentum of a very fierce competitor, but China Telecom puts the introduction of RIM and Palm both in one fell swoop, “Jiang Yuan.” RIM shares rose recently, RIM’s BlackBerry business phones in the U.S. market share of over 50% of the company’s value has more than 430 billion U.S. dollars, approaching 49 billion U.S. dollars market value of the industry’s top spot Nokia. The source told this reporter, RIM president of China, Zheng-Yu Liu has privately said that because of successful negotiations with China Telecom, so “telecom Edition” BlackBerry will soon be available in the fourth quarter of this year.
The Palm and the carriers Sprint in the U.S. market with deep feeling of cooperation Gengrang China Telecom, the two partners, the weak market share by “Star Mobile” PalmPre to launch a comeback. PalmPre listed 10 days or sell at least 10 million units, the data show, in which 1 / 3 of people are the original non-Sprint customers, this is what most want to see China Telecom.
The world not just the iPhone
“Creating EVDO iconic products” is China Telecom claims that one of the terminal development of three major objectives, and this task will obviously fall into the head of RIM and Palm. Deputy General Manager of China Telecom terminal MA Wu Tianyi, “said China Telecom will strengthen Canada’s RIM and Palm’s U.S. smartphone makers such as cooperation, joint effort to build part of China 3G, EVDO star product.”
Reporter learned from China’s internal telecommunications, RIM’s BlackBerry Storm9530 – is now available of the most high-end BlackBerry EVDO, and nicknamed “pear fat” in PalmPre – the same efforts to build a star Palm models, will become China Telecom “star Strategy “the important pieces.
“With the cooperation of China Unicom and iPhone than I am more optimistic about the marriage of China Telecom and RIM.” Wedge-MKI-known research institutions, senior research fellow, said Zhang, solely from the terminal point of view, iPhone does not support the lack of MMS, etc. will likely affect the enthusiasm of users in China, while China Telecom, the telecom market in the enterprise-class deep resources and the BlackBerry’s business location is fitting, there is much room for imagination.
However, Analysys International, Senior Vice President Zhang Ying reminders, blackberry, PalmPre such as product positioning and the iPhone’s cool style is completely different BlackBerry emphasize simplicity, efficiency and resource utilization. “Star phone” does not necessarily have to big to play fashion, in fact, BlackBerry practical, efficient also in the United States created a pop.
Zhang Ying further explained that, from the current BlackBerry sales in China’s gray market of view, “there are some office applications, stable and reliable is the buyer’s main demands, rational distribution of individuals and product lines between government and enterprises to develop competitive price strategy is to consider the issue of China Telecom. “
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