Device Arena

Nokia announces the start of offering Nokia 5800 Comes With Music, which brings to Brazil the revolutionary music download service, by which consumers will be able to download millions of tracks unlimitedly. Nokia 5800 is the first product to receive the service, a 3.2″ widescreen touch screen model, which already sold 3 million units since its arrival in the market in November of last year*.

Starting today, the device is available for purchase at Nokia Store SP (Rua Oscar Freire, 849) and at Nokia’s online store (www.nokia.com.br/loja). TIM will be the only operator to sell the solution during first month of launch. Customers that were already registered on the available pre-sales opportunity at the online store will receive their devices at home by this week’s end.

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Motorola announced the winners of its annual Enterprise Mobility Solutions Awards, presented at the Company’s North American and Latin American (NALA) Enterprise Mobility Partner Conference. North American and Latin American channel partners received the awards for the most innovative enterprise mobility solutions that help customers accelerate growth, productivity and operational efficiencies.

“Motorola and its partners share a common goal of empowering the individual and transforming the enterprise,” said Janet Schijns, vice president of Global Channels, Motorola Enterprise Mobility Solutions. “The Motorola Enterprise Mobility Solutions Awards recognize the channel partners that have developed the most successful, forward-thinking mobile and wireless solutions that help customers increase productivity, streamline business operations, and provide a competitive advantage. This year’s competition offered an extremely strong pool of innovative solutions from our partners across the region and we appreciate the commitment and support of all of our partners in advancing the next wave of enterprise mobility.”

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Sprint, purveyors of America’s most dependable 3G network*, today launched a series of customized online ads showcasing the breadth of its Now Network™. These innovative spots feature interactive homepage takeovers tailored to the specific audiences of marquee sites, beginning with Yahoo! today and expanding to AOL, ESPN.com, WSJ.com, People.com, CNET, and YouTube throughout the following week. The campaign also includes custom placements on MySpace, Pandora, Gawker, FoxNews.com and Reuters.com, all of which feature ad banners containing feeds of readership-tailored data from the Sprint Now Network site.

Through a string of online placements, Internet surfers will be encouraged to engage with advertisements that entertain, educate and connect people to what is going on in the world now. For example, YouTube’s homepage takeover will feature a user-generated clock where users can film themselves for three seconds while holding up a pre-assigned number, serving as a digit on the Now Clock. Other notable widgets include a Twitter word search that lets you create your own flock of Twitter birds, Now e-cards that self-destruct after one second, and tiny construction workers chirping on their Nextel Direct Connect phones with a counter showing how many people are using those phones right now.

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Nokia today announced plans to focus the strategy of its Services unit to create a better, more simplified user experience across its services and to open up deeper and greater opportunities for third parties. Further, Nokia will focus investments on fewer initiatives and increase the use of common enablers across certain services.

“The planned changes are aimed at improving and simplifying the user experience of Nokia services, increasing opportunities for third party developers and other partners to create compelling services, and accelerating the development of a common platform for Nokia’s different service offerings,” said Niklas Savander, Executive Vice President, Services, Nokia.

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Building on its extensive history of enterprise innovation and industry firsts, Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) today introduced a new series of business-class fixed radio-frequency identification (RFID) readers. The Motorola FX7400 series provides maximum functionality in a sleek package that is less than half the size of traditional fixed RFID readers, making it ideal for retail stores, offices, and other customer-facing or business environments.

Motorola’s new cost-effective, high-performance fixed RFID reader is built on a new platform that supports Gen 2 technology and is capable of hosting third-party, customer-driven embedded applications to meet the growing requirements of enterprises. As a compact, lightweight, unobtrusive RFID reader, the FX7400 can be installed under point-of-sale counters, behind walls or on ceilings – providing an ideal solution for item-level tracking, retail inventory management, file tracking and asset management applications in environments where performance and a small footprint are critical. For retailers, this new reader will help improve employee productivity, reduce cycle count times and decrease out-of-stock items in order to improve operations and increase sales. The FX7400 series complements Motorola’s existing portfolio of industrial solutions and opens a new window of opportunity for retailers and businesses to implement RFID. Motorola intends to broaden this business-class portfolio with additional reader options in the future.

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