Arun 795 Report post Posted August 28, 2009 The Hindu Kolkata, August 28, 2009 Samsung on Friday launched the country’s first open market handset (OMH) phone Mpower 699 in co-operation with Qualcomm at an event in Kolkata. The OMH technology gives mobile customers the flexibility to buy a CDMA handset and SIM cards from various CDMA operators of their choice. Announcing the launch of Samsung MPower 699 in the Indian market, Jung Soo Shin, president & CEO Samsung South West Asia, said that the launch marked a paradigm shift in the dynamics of the CDMA ecosystem with consumers now having the flexibility to choose an operator. Sunil Dutt, country head Samsung Telecom Division, Samsung India Electronics Ltd said that last year, Samsung took the first step towards giving consumers flexibility in CDMA by launching MPower series handsets to work with CDMA connections from operators, Reliance Mobile, Tata Indicom and Virgin Mobile. Mr Shin said that the introduction of OMH will lead to common development standards and inter-operability for all CDMA networks globally. A company release said that MPower 699 will support Tata Indicom, Reliance Mobile, MTS and Virgin Mobile services on their OMH SIM cards. It was also stated that the switch-over process to new OMH SIM cards from existing R-UIM/SIM connections was very easy and the new OMH phone also supports the existing SIM for voice and SMS as well as data services. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
srk006 21 Report post Posted August 28, 2009 (edited) oh! its just a basic phone! no good features.. it’s a basic slider phone with 1.3MP camera, music player, FM Radio, microSD slot and Mobile Tracker. It will sell for Rs. 7,100. From http://www.techtickerblog.com/2009/08/28/samsung-launches-mpower-699-cdma-phone-powered-by-omh-tech/ LG6600 has the same features and retails for <5K Hope they launch some real good phones for cdma. Edited August 28, 2009 by srk006 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SUDYEcaZ 67 Report post Posted August 28, 2009 The Hindu Kolkata, August 28, 2009 Samsung on Friday launched the country’s first open market handset (OMH) phone Mpower 699 in co-operation with Qualcomm at an event in Kolkata. First??? i believe there are many launched frm Samsung... thsi phone was launched sometime back... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
vishalmcp 8 Report post Posted August 28, 2009 They should launch basic CDMA phones that are cheap like Reliance gives LG handsets starting @ Rs. 1500. Then they would have lots of sales for their mobile phones. Although this phone contains good features like camera & MP3, but still its too costly. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
supernova 47 Report post Posted August 28, 2009 Reliance gives LG handsets starting @ Rs. 1500. just to update Reiance gives Lg handsets starting @ rs 1000 .. or even 950 (shops) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FEVIN-RAJ 61 Report post Posted August 29, 2009 it's just TWIN Brother of Samsung MAX .... nothing new Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ravi_patent 28 Report post Posted August 29, 2009 probably royaltie to quallcomm could be the reason for such a high pricing on OMH handsets.in bundled handsets quallcomm may probably be taking portion of revenues against handset subsidies Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ravi_patent 28 Report post Posted August 29, 2009 "There will be three more launches of OMH phones in India by December and another two by March,from samsung". http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/samsung-qualcomm-launch-worlds-first-omh-mobile/368422/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kshah 452 Report post Posted August 29, 2009 Unless qualcomm give up it control from standards CDMA is bound to grow slow. Also EU do not want CDMA to grow so they will never adopt CDMA. Though this is good initiative by CDG, its very very half hearted in modern context. IF CDMA wants to compete GSM they have to be as open as GSM if not more. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pasumark 51 Report post Posted August 29, 2009 (edited) Something is better than nothing. But how can they claim this as 'world’s first OMH (Open Market Handset) CDMA handset'? Already there are Spice, Nokia(6275,6265), etc Edited August 29, 2009 by pasumark Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KumaarShah 143 Report post Posted August 29, 2009 No harm in claiming anything, you see!!!! People believe anything!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kshah 452 Report post Posted August 29, 2009 Something is better than nothing. But how can they claim this as 'world’s first OMH (Open Market Handset) CDMA handset'? Already there are Spice, Nokia(6275,6265), etc I dont think they are OMH as according to standards OMH should be able to program itself from RUIM only (just like GSM handsets) or OMH should have programming on device and detect activate suitable data + MMS or operator specific settings upon insertion of RUIM. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
