Bucking the ARM trend, France Telecom/Orange has announced it will roll out an Intel Atom-based phone to customers in the UK and France.
The currently code-named “Santa Clara” will run Android and is based on Intel’s smartphone reference design. It includes an Intel Atom Z2460 processor, plus an Intel XMM 6260 platform for [...]
Over in the UK, Orange has announced the release date for the San Francisco II smart phone. The budget smart phone boasts HD voice, Wi-Fi signal boost, the latest version of Android (Gingerbread 2.3), and Orange Mobile Mail. It’ll be available for 99 pounds on a pre-pay plan or free if you sign up [...]
In a two way deal, France Telecom-Orange (FTO) is buying 100 percent of Congo Chine Telecom (CCT), a mobile operator in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
FTO is paying $10 million for ZTE’s 51 percent share of CCT’s equity and $7 million to the Democratic Republic of the Congo for the government [...]
After months of promotions and testing, Orange Switzerland has officially launched HD voice service with nationwide coverage (well, more than 90 percent of the market in the entire 3G network, according to the press release).
The official release from Orange says over 100,000 customers own HD voice capable phones and 21 HD voice [...]
While there was no official discussion or mention of HD voice/wideband voice at the Apple iPhone 4S rollout earlier this week, it is possible/likely (Apologies for the hedging) that the device will support AMR-WB for voice calls in/on select vendors and markets.
T-Mobile and Orange have already announced the UK pricing for the [...]
It’s been more than a year since Orange announced HD voice trials in Switzerland, but the company has officially launched service in the western part of the country, according to a report by TelecomPaper. Service to the rest of the country’s 3G network is expected by the end of October.
China telecommunications manufacturer ZTE will be providing Orange UK with the ZTE “Monte Carlo” nee Skate cell phone. The Monte Carlo will be supporting HD voice among its other features.
The Inquirer broke the story earlier this week when Orange UK put up the phone on its web site as “Coming Soon”. The phone [...]
France Telecom has launched a major offensive for HD voice today, declaring it wants to “open up” the use of HD Voice communications by 2013. The company says it now has one million (1M) mobile HD voice users, and has further launches planned this year, particularly in the AMEA (Africa, Middle East, and Asia) [...]
France Telecom continues to roll out HD voice service in its subsidiaries around the globe. The latest countries include Mauritius and Reunion, but the company isn’t hyping the additions.
Mauritius appears in a Orange Switzerland press release promoting a HD voice demonstration at the 37th Asut seminar in Bern on June 9. The country [...]