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PC World - The number of Chinese mobile phone subscribers topped 600 million in June.

PC World - Intel on Wednesday said it was developing new x86 chips to put in devices ranging from consumer electronics to mobile phones…

Reuters - Mobile phone chip and technology
supplier Qualcomm Inc on Wednesday posted a profit for
its fiscal third quarter and revenue rose amid increasing
demand for phones with high-speed Web links.

NewsFactor - Last week’s iPhone 3G launch appears to have been a success, with the device sold out in virtually all U.S. locations. Calls to local AT&T stores in the metropolitan Chicago area, for example, turned up no phones, and long wait lists. Reasons for the shortage range from Apple underestimating demand to a shortage of components from overseas suppliers.

Reuters - The German Federal Patent Court ruled
on Wednesday that a Qualcomm Inc GSM patent asserted
in a case against the world’s top cell phone maker Nokia
(NOK1V.HE) was invalid.

AFP - British mobile phone giant Vodafone said Wednesday it would repurchase shares worth 1.0 billion pounds (1.3 billion euros, 2.0 billion dollars) and stressed that it was undervalued.

People who never want to get lost may have to own multiple GPS satellite navigation devices. They may have to get one device for car, another for hiking, and a third one for sailing. It would be possible to use a mobile phone that is equipped with GPS for different types of navigation tasks by downloading a suitable application and a map to a smartphone, but not everyone likes the phone’s small screen. Garmin has introduced the Nuvi 500 that has been designed as a portable handheld GPS device for walking, cycling, driving, and boating.

Reuters - The German Federal Patent Court ruled
on Wednesday that a Qualcomm GSM patent asserted in a case
against the world’s top cell phone maker Nokia was invalid.

Reuters - Carrying bags of stolen groceries, Oleg
Vorotnikov takes out the batteries of his mobile phone before
entering the secret headquarters of his underground art
collective on the outskirts of Moscow.

AFP - British mobile phone giant Vodafone said on Wednesday it planned to repurchase 1.0 billion pounds’ (1.3 billion euros’, 2.0 billion dollars’) worth of its shares, saying the company was “significantly” undervalued.