·         Reevoo.com research shows that touchscreen manufacturers will have to listen to customer reviews if they want to compete with iPhone
·         Half of the lowest rated phones are touchscreen models
 
Mobile phone manufacturers risk losing their customers as they race to incorporate touchscreen features into their phones in a bid to copy Apple’s success, according to feedback from shoppers collated by customer review website, www.reevoo.com.
 
More than 19,000 buyers of phones were asked by Reevoo.com to score and assess 226 phones against a range of criteria, including style and function. Reevoo.com’s analysis of feedback from customers shows that 5 out of ten phones in the bottom ten are touchscreen models [see top and bottom rated phones in the tables overleaf].

Showcases company’s commitment to supporting the widest array of mobile devices

Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, Spain, February 17, 2009-- VISTO®, the world’s leading mobile push synchronization platform and service provider, today announced that Visto Mobile™, including the recently launched VISTO Mobile 6, now supports Google’s Android mobile operating system.

VISTO supports the broadest array of mobile devices and mobile operating systems including Windows Mobile, Symbian, Palm OS, Java, iPhone, and now Android. Available on over 400 mobile devices worldwide, VISTO Mobile provides the industry’s most user friendly mobile email and messaging services on the broadest range of mobile handsets worldwide.

CSLNWM’s network in Hong Kong to be replaced with an all-IP network 

17 February 2009, Barcelona, Spain - ZTE, a leading global provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions and Hong Kong’s #1 mobile operator CSL New World Mobility (CSLNWM), a subsidiary of Australia’s Telstra Corporation, today announced that they would work together to build in Hong-Kong, the world’s first SDR (Software Defined Radio) based HSPA+ network making it the first large-scale all-IP network with such technology.
 
Selected after a thorough competitive tender process ZTE will upgrade CSLNWM’s existing infrastructure with a fully integrated 2G/3G all-IP SDR-based network.

Integration of NEC Device Management and Carrier IQ Mobile Service Intelligence Solutions

Tokyo, Japan and Mountain View, CA , February 17, 2009 – NEC Corporation, a leading global provider of Advanced Telecom and IT solutions, and Carrier IQ, the leader in Mobile Service Intelligence solutions for wireless carriers and equipment vendors, today confirmed that they have formed a global partnership agreement.

Under the agreement, the companies have integrated Carrier IQ’s multi-vendor compatible Mobile Service Intelligence technology alongside NEC’s leading Device Management products for mobile OEMs and carriers, and will jointly promote the integrated products world-wide.