Disqus
Mitsubishi Electric decided to close its handset business. Now you may haven’t seen a single Mitsubishi-made phone in your life — I’ve seen some of the early GSM models and they sucked big time — but you would surprised to know what kind of high-end phones they’ve been making for the Japanese market. That being said, it’s kinda a sad to see them ending the mobile phone production before having a chance to play with a single Japan-only unit for some time. Sure, we had few minutes with almost all DoCoMo phones during events like Mobile World Congress (3GSM), but we want more — to test them in the real-life conditions.
Anyway, the reason for terminating the mobile handset business quoted include “strategic shifting of the resources to the communication-related business and other businesses the company plans to strengthen.” Furthermore, Mitsubishi Electric’s mobile handset business has recently suffered shipment decreases and it has become extremely difficult to expect improvement in this field.
Meanwhile, Diamondtelecom, Inc., which is a mobile phone sales dealer and a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Electric, will continue and work to further expand its business, and the company will continue after-sales-service. In addition, approximately 600 employees — including R&D, manufacturing and sales divisions — will be repositioned mainly in Mitsubishi Electric’s strategic businesses… Full release is available from here.
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Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
