Mobile devices

Rusnano invests in US portable power technology developer

September 18, 2012

Lilliputian Systems, a developer of portable power products for consumer electronics, announced last week it has closed on $40 million of a planned $60 million equity financing round led by Rusnano. The Russian nanotechnology giant joins Lilliputian’s current blue chip investors including Intel Corporation, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Altira Group, Stata Venture Partners, Atlas …

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Apple goes wholesale in Russia

August 22, 2012

Apple has registered a local company, Apple Rus, to supply its products directly to retail chains in Moscow and St. Petersburg as soon as 2013. According to data from SPARK-Interfax, Apple Rus is 99.5 percent owned by Apple Holding B.V. with the remaining 0.5 percent belonging to Irish company Apple Distribution. The company’s charter capital …

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Hyundai to sell tablets in Russia; cars seen as facilitator

July 16, 2012

Next month, Hyundai IT, a Chinese-based IT-focused subsidiary of Korea’s Hyundai Motors, is launching Russian sales of new Hyundai-branded tablets and has plans to localize the assembly of the tablets in Russia in the late fall, the Russian business daily Vedomosti reported last week, citing a tête-à-tête with an IT Hyundai source. Hyundai is reportedly …

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Nokia ditches its Russian single-brand retail network, bets on online sales

June 28, 2012

Nokia has scrapped its plans for a single-brand retail presence in Russia and will close all of 50 of its existing Russian stores in the near future, reports RIA Novosti, citing an exchange with Nokia Vice President Erik Bertman, head of Nokia Eurasia. As of yet, there’s no official confirmation of the news on Nokia’s …

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Contactless payments take their first steps in Russia

June 16, 2016

On Wednesday, Vimpelcom, a major Russian mobile operator, announced it will deploy the NFC-based contactless payment system it implemented in St. Petersburg last year within the Moscow subway. Widespread commercial launch in Moscow is scheduled for the end of the year. While most offline and online purchases made in Russia are still paid in cash, …

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The Russian smartphone market in 2011

March 6, 2012

Russia saw an impressive growth of the smartphone market in 2011, reveals an IDC report presented in late February at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The unit share of smartphones reached 19% of the total market, up from 5% in 2010. While Nokia remained the market leader, its share its share fell from 58% to just 48% …

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GLONASS supported smartphones fail to get traction on the Russian market

March 1, 2012

Chinese smartphone manufacturer ZTE has stopped producing smartphones that support both GLONASS and GPS, said Ding Haomin, ZTE’s representative in Russia, in an exchange with CNews.ru, an online publication covering the Russian telecom and IT markets. Haomin explained the decision was motivated by “the absence of demand” for such devices.

Domestic sales of GPS+GLONASS road navigation devices could reach $3 billion by 2015, say Russian experts

February 1, 2012

As many as 270,000 GPS+GLONASS road navigation devices were sold in Russia last year, an almost three-fold increase from 2010, said Alexander Gurko, General Manager of NIS GLONASS, the Russian national provider of satellite navigation services, in an exchange with news agency RIA Novosti earlier this week. These figures could double in 2012, representing sales …

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Svyaznoy launches in-house TV network

December 20, 2011

Last week, major Russian mobile phone retailer Svyaznoy announced the launch of an in-house TV network. ‘Svyaznoy TV’ offers news, reports, and reviews of the retailer’s products and services as well as entertainment, corporate information, and advertising from Svyaznoy’s partners. Svyaznoy TV is currently featured in more than 900 stores across Russia, with an expected …

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Nokia integrates Mail.ru services in dedicated mobile web browser

December 7, 2011

Mail.ru Group and Nokia announced yesterday the launch of a special version of Nokia’s web browser for Nokia Series 40 mobile phones. These mid-tier feature phones, which inlude the Nokia 2700, X2-00, 5130, C3-00, 6700, 6303 and 21 other models, enjoy strong popularity in Russia, notes Telecom Daily, a Russian online publication covering telecom and …

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