Word: handset
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...mobile-phone industry used to be straightforward. Operators, like Vodafone, ran networks based on cellular technologies that transmitted signals through the air from giant, ground-based antennas. And handset vendors, like Nokia and Motorola, churned out phones that worked on those networks, which they'd sell through the operators. An easy-enough, symbiotic relationship for all involved. [an error occurred while processing this directive...
...that technology will be able to deliver the multimedia goods to mobile-phone customers better than traditional cellular networks. Motorola chief technology officer Padmasree Warrior says WiMax offers "three times the data transfer and half the cost" of cellular networks, which were originally designed only to handle voice calls. Handset vendors also like the prospect of a WiMax future which may help to free them from intellectual property payments. (Many cell phones, for example, use a technology called cdma from San Diego?based Qualcomm, which collected $2.75 billion in licensing fees in its most recent fiscal year...
...even strained alliances with their old best customers is not stopping Motorola and its competitors from rolling out a range of new wi-fi and WiMax handsets. Nokia, the world's leading handset vendor, for example, offers at least 12 wi-fi devices, and says it's prepared to offer WiMax phones if the market wants them. Motorola started shipping its A910 wi-fi phone in Europe this month, and is providing WiMax handsets to Japanese provider Softbank for a planned trial. It's enough to make mobile-phone operators long for the days when they knew who their friends...
...numbers of local Hizballah men in his area. He is 103 and Abu Mohammed is 121. Haj Rabieh demonstrates by picking up his walkie-talkie and calling number "47" When "47" answers, Haj Rabieh says "God give you strength" in greeting, then "go, go, go". He taps at the handset to change the frequency, then asks "What did you have for lunch?" "Rice and potatoes," comes the tinny-sounding reply...
...phone is not a RAZR clone. It's just as slim and, like the hot Samsung a900 Blade for Sprint, it owes much of its appeal to Motorola's revolutionary handset. But a clone is an imitation, often a pale one. My instinct is that what Motorola started with the RAZR, other companies mean to finish. The CU500 - the first phone to tap into Cingular's new "High-Speed Downlink Packet Access" (HSDPA) network - is next in a stream of upcoming slim and powerful cell phones...