Fractus is a Spanish company which you haven’t really gotten to know so far. Now it’s time for it’s moment of glory! Fractus has decided to sue not one, not two, but ten mobile phone manufacturers which apparently have infringed not one, not two, but nine different patents which concern internal antennas.

These manufacturers are: Samsung, LG Electronics, Research In Motion, HTC, Palm, Pantech, Sharp, Kyocera, Sanyo and UTStarcom. And Fractus is a company which holds more than 80 patents worldwide, 30 of them right in the United States. The suit was filed in the USA and we’ll just have to wait and see what happens next. Fractus’s lawyer said:

It is very brave of Fractus to fight against these cell phone companies, many of whom knew about Fractus and its technology yet still continued to infringe. Fractus’s inventions have added tremendous value to both the cell phone user and manufacturer.

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AT&T seems ready to launch a new device but it’s not the BlackBerry Bold. It’s the Quickfire, a slider phone made by UTStarcom for AT&T. From the pictures it looks pretty good and it will certainly make an impression with hardcore texters and not only.

The phone is going to be launched sometime later this month and it’s rumored to cost $99.99 if purchased with a two-year plan. We’re going to get you some features by the time it launches. For now we know it has a GPS chip and it comes in orange, silver and white

via engadgetmobile

Tags: At&T, At&T, Mobile News, Quickfire, UTStarcom

Last March 8, 2008, Cricket made history as it launched the very first CDMA AWS (Advance Wireless Services) cell phone — the UTStarcom CDM7126. The new UTStarcom CDM7126 cell phone is first phone in the world to utilize the AWS spectrum band. Aside from said band, though, the triband UTStarcom CDM7126 also works with cellular and PCS bands. The UTStarcom CDM7126 cell phone is a metallic slider with colored display and Bluetooth connectivity. It’s now available in Cricket retail stores across Tulsa, Oklahoma, and will be available nationwide soon.

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Tags: Cricket, Other Brands, UTStarcom

Federal Communications Commission has just approved the UTStarcom CDM-7126 — the very first tri-band CDMA phone. The UTStarcom CDM-7126 phone supports both the CDMA 850/1900 band and the 1700 AWS band. Which means the phone could be carried by the companies that bought the AWS spectrum in 2006: US Cellular, MetroPCS, and Cricket. The 7126 is a clamshell phone which will reportedly carry Bluetooth. No other specs are known as of the moment but we reckon it won’t be long ’til we hear more about the UTStarcom CDM-7126.

Read FCC file.

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Still in CES News, UTStarcom has presented a rather off-looking gadget in their booth. They claim it’s a mobile phone but it somehow looks like something else to me. The phone features not one but two circular keypads which reminded me of the ones on Nokia 3600 and 3650 except even those looked better, and I’m not exactly too fond of them. In the UTStarcom HSM 180, there are two circular keypads each one having five numbers. The third circle you see at the top is the screen. The phone features GPRS, EDGE, GSM, MP3 playback and SMS.

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