MobiFone and Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today announced plans to launch BlackBerry® services for MobiFone customers in Vietnam. The BlackBerry services will enable customers to take advantage of RIM's industry-leading mobile communications solution as well as a wide range of other mobile business and lifestyle applications available on BlackBerry App World™.

Sprint (NYSE: S) and Motorola Mobility, Inc. (NYSE: MMI) today announced the availability of Motorola ADMIRAL™, the first smartphone that boasts Sprint Direct Connect® speed, powered by Android™.

Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today announced that the BlackBerry® Curve™ 9360, which features the new BlackBerry® 7 operating system (OS), is now available in Thailand from authorized BlackBerry partners.

LG Electronics (LG) today announced the Korean market launch of LG Optimus LTE, the first mobile device in the country to offer 4G connectivity with the highest resolution IPS display available on a smartphone. Developed in close collaboration with sister company LG Display, Optimus LTE features a striking 4.5–inch “True HD IPS” display which offers advanced resolution, brightness and clarity and shows colors in their most natural tones, as they were meant to be seen.

Taiwan Mobile and Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today launched two new BlackBerry® smartphones based on the BlackBerry® 7 Operating System (OS).  Powered by the latest BlackBerry software (including Chinese language support), the new BlackBerry® Torch™ 9860 will be available from Taiwan Mobile tomorrow and the BlackBerry® Bold™ 9900 can be pre-ordered through Taiwan Mobile at the same time.

Bert Nordberg, President and CEO of Sony Ericsson commented, “We delivered a solid 73 million Euro improvement in income before taxes as we rebounded from the previous quarter with a 33 percent increase in sales. Android-based Xperia™ smartphone sales now account for more than 80 percent of sales and we have shipped 22 million Xperia smartphones to date. 

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd today announced the availability of the Galaxy Wi-Fi multimedia device. Available in two sizes - the 5” is available now and the 3.6’’ version will be in the shops from November.

Motorola Mobility, Inc. today announced the arrival of two new ground-breaking Bluetooth headsets, Motorola ELITE SLIVER and Motorola ELITE FLIP. The innovative Bluetooth headsets boast unmatched sound quality and features, including Near Field Communication (NFC) technology, HD Audio Plus and three times greater connection range than the leading competitors.

BlackBerry® Tag, which will be incorporated in the next BlackBerry® 7 OS update*, will allow users to share contact information, documents, URLs, photos and other multimedia content by simply tapping their BlackBerry smartphones together. BlackBerry Tag will also enable friends to instantly add one another as contacts on BBM™ (BlackBerry® Messenger).

Combined with Motorola’s revolutionary webtop application, Motorola ATRIX transforms when placed in the companion Lapdock™ or HD Multimedia Dock, running a full Mozilla Firefox 4.0 browser and supporting Adobe® Flash® Player to open up all the rich graphics, animations and video on the web. Motorola ATRIX will be available from October 10th for 1999PLN.