Mobile devices

Mobile retailer experiments with geotargeted mobile advertisement

April 22, 2011 April 22, 2011

Svyaznoy, Russia’s second largest mobile retailer, has just launched a mobile advertising campaign using the geotargeting capacities of AlterGeo, a Russian startup inspired by the real time interactive map and navigation of Foursquare. The campaign promotes Samsung’s new Galaxy Gio handset among AlterGeo users who come within the vicinity of a number of Svyaznoy’s physical …

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MTS shoots for the stars with new GLONASS smartphone but barely makes orbit with middlebrow tech

April 4, 2011 April 4, 2011

MTS, a leading Russian mobile operator and retailer, launched initial retail sales of its Glonass 945 smartphone last Friday in a bid to offer the world’s first smartphone with a GLONASS+GPS supported satellite location system.

Russian mobile phones to be used for cashless payments

March 29, 2011 March 29, 2011

Ambiq Tech St. Petersburg, the Russian branch of American company Ambiq Technologies, yesterday unveiled a mobile phone add-on for Russian customers. Based on Near Field Communication technology, a short-range wireless connectivity standard, the insert allows customers to use their phone as a discount card or a payment instrument linked to their bank account.

First GLONASS receivers and navigation devices on the market

March 15, 2011 March 15, 2011

Explay, a leading Russian manufacturer of car navigators, announced last week its launch of a navigator that supports the two satellite-based location systems, GPS and GLONASS.

Android’s smartphone share increased 10-fold; Mobile phone retailer to open dedicated departments

March 3, 2011 March 3, 2011

Mobile phone retailer Svyaznoy announced the imminent opening of a department dedicated to Android-supported devices in one of its Moscow outlets. Such departments may appear in other Svyaznoy stores in Moscow and Russian regions as well.

Russian touch screen phone sales quadruple in 2010

February 25, 2011 February 25, 2011

According MForum Analytics, Russian sales of touch screen phones increased fourfold in one year, rising from 2.94 million devices sold in 2009 to 11.93 million in 2010. At the end of 2010, touch screen phones accounted for about 30% of all phones sold in Russia, but could reach as much as 50% or more by …

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Russian iPhone sales improve, but numbers still far from western records

February 4, 2011 February 4, 2011

Russian retailers sold 120,000 iPhone 4 units over the last three months, according to Kommersant, a Russian business daily. This comes in addition to significant unofficial sales via “grey import” channels. Although modest in comparison to the iPhone’s triumphant worldwide sales performance, 16.2 million in Q4 2010, these results mark significant progress for Apple on …

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ST-Ericsson launches world’s smallest receiver to connect to both GPS and GLONASS satellites

February 2, 2011 February 2, 2011

ST-Ericsson, a world leader in wireless platforms and semiconductors, is launching the world’s smallest receiver to be able to see both GPS and GLONASS positioning satellites, enabling mobile devices to deliver much faster and much more reliable location-based services. Compared to GPS-only solutions, the combination of GLONASS and GPS technology dramatically improves positioning accuracy in …

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Asus and Russian systems developer CNT extend cooperation

January 31, 2011 January 31, 2011

Asus, a global manufacturer of electronic devices, and the Center of Navigation Technologies (CNT), a Russian developer of the Navitel navigation systems software, have announced their transition to a new, direct relationship. Cooperation between the two companies was previously limited to Garmin-Asus, a joint venture specializing in the production of Nuvifone smartphones featuring a satellite …

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