Cheaper 3G Phones?

In the recent "3G for All Programme", organised by The GSM Association, the LG-KU250 had emerged as the winner out of a total of 19 handsets by 8 different vendors of this event. This 3G handset from LG Electronics was selected by 12 leading operators to spearhead the GSMA's campaign to make multimedia mobile services more accessible and much cheaper to a wider user base. This phone is set to go on sale in Europe, Asia, Middle East and Africa soon, probably somewhere this month or latest next month. 

Ehrlich, who is the chairman of the GSMA and also a board member of Hutchison Mobile Communications is sponsoring for the project. He commented "By focusing 3G handset makers on a much broader base of potential customers, this programme will have a significant and lasting impact on this industry."

The article also quoted:

" Starting this month, the LG-KU250 will be available in Germany, Spain, Poland, Hungary, Sweden, Portugal, Italy, UAE, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey, Hong Kong, Taiwan, India, Indonesia, Australia, Thailand, Philippines, Singapore and Malaysia.

The 12 operators that selected the winning handset were Cingular Wireless, Globe Telecom, Hutchison 3G, KTF, MTN, Orange, Smart, Telecom Italia, Telefonica, Telenor, T-Mobile and Vodafone. Bharti Airtel acted as an observer. "

That means we will also be getting the handset soon, but i do not see any familiar operator in there. Perhaps Vodafone will be providing us the under Celcom as the 3G operator as they had signed a joint-venture contract a year back then.

The original article was from :

http://www.cellular-news.com/story/24302.php