An undisclosed OEM company has reportedly signed a purchase agreement for its Coolteq™-l handset development platform, the first since the technology was announced at Mobile World Congress in February 2009.

Prior to purchasing the development platform, the OEM conducted an in-depth assessment of Nujira’s Coolteq technology; the results of this assessment matched Nujira’s own claims for the technology.

Commenting, Tim Haynes, Nujira CEO said, “This is the first time Coolteq-l has been independently assessed by a major handset OEM and we are delighted that our own measurements of the power consumption and bill of materials advantages have been confirmed by our customer. Since announcing our handset technology at MWC we have experienced enormous levels of interest from multiple areas of the handset supply chain including the OEMs themselves and expect other deals to soon follow.”

Nujira Coolteq-l enables the creation of an efficient wideband RF front end, covering three to five times the bandwidth of a standard design with up to double the efficiency. Only two PAs (power amplifiers) would be needed to design a front end covering all of the fourteen different frequency bands defined in the 3GPP for LTE and all of the operating modes (GSM, EDGE, WCDMA, HSUPA and LTE), compared with seven or more without Nujira’s solution thus achieving a significant reduction in the handset Bill of Materials.

(Source) Press

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Starting today, ZTE’s C78 and C79 Tri-Band phones will be made available through Pocket Communications to subscribers in its New England and Texas markets. In addition to the C88, this will be the second and third handsets ZTE has launched with Pocket Communications in 2009.

Both stylish and affordable options, the ZTE C78 and C79 are full-featured handsets that operate on AWS and PCS frequency bands and provide over 60MB of user memory for users who want to download games, ringtones and applications. The suite of features also includes Bluetooth capabilities and picture messaging.

The ZTE C78 features a sleek design with a 2-inch backlit color display in a black and silver candy bar casing. The ZTE C79 is a clamshell phone equipped with a 1.3 Megapixel camera and an MP3 player with external music keys, a unique feature allowing users to listen to music and manage their playlists with ease.

As with all its products, ZTE both designs and manufactures its handsets in-house. ZTE USA offers a full portfolio of end-to-end wireless handset and networking solutions in the U.S.

The company’s handsets have won numerous design awards, and its flexible product design and manufacturing cycle enables ZTE USA to quickly deliver affordable products to customers.

(Source) BusinessWire

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