At the opening of Gitex 2002, the Crown Prince of Dubai and Minister of Defense, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum stopped by at the Siemens Mobile stand to have a look at the prototypes displayed, two of which were the Siemens Pendant Phone and the Siemens’ Wristphone.
Today communication and lifestyle is interwoven – a mobile phone can also double up as an accessory. For instance, the pendant phone developed by Siemens Mobile, though still at the prototype stage, will be developed to be a lifestyle accessory when it hits the market.
The little blue-and-gold apparatus has a voice-activated telephone that enables you to dictate text messages and an integrated MP3 player with 64MB storage capacity, as well as a camera that takes pictures in high resolution JPEGs.
The Siemens Information and Communication Mobile Group (IC Mobile) offers a range of mobile solutions including mobile devices, infrastructure and applications. Devices include mobile phones, wireless modules, mobile organizers and cordless phones as well as products for wireless home networks.
The infrastructure portfolio includes GSM, GPRS and 3G mobile network technologies from base stations and switching systems to intelligent networks for prepaid services. Mobile applications cover end-to-end solutions for messaging, location based services or mobile payment. For the fiscal year 2001, IC Mobile recorded preliminary sales of €11.3 billion and employed 30,730 people worldwide. — (menareport.com)
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