12-19 March CeBIT 2003 Hanover, Germany, gave mobile terminal manufacturers the chance to exhibit their product ranges for 2003. The focus was on products such as the general packet radio service(GPRS) and Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS).
CeBIT 2003 brought few revolutionary new terminals, exceptions were Nokia 3300 and Siemens Xelibri fashion phones.
Nokia revealed three devices at CeBIT: the 810, 3300 and 6220.

Samsung announced the most new products and the most technologically impressive ones. All the new products it showed have a built-in rotating camera.
Samsung revealed its new smartphone the SGH-D700. It uses version 7.0 of the Symbian operating system and Nokia Mobile Software Series 60 userinterface. It is expected to ship in the 3Q of 2003.
The SGH-P400 clamshell GSM camera phone designed especially for the Vodafone live! consumer product range.
Samsung introduced its first Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone, the SGH-P410 and also unveiled its first 3G phone, the SGH-Z100.

Siemens surprised the industry by announcing its SX1 smartphone at the 3GSM World Congress rather than at CeBIT. CeBIT saw a new midrange product: the SL55
Siemens other major focus at CeBIT was its Xelibri brand. The four Xelibri phones made their first appearance since their launch in January. Xelibri is a new concept for the mobile phone industry, not only in terms of designbut also of marketing and distribution.

A notable feature of this CeBIT was the number of commercial 3G mobile terminals exhibited by emerging players like Samsung, LG, NEC and Sanyo. Leading manufacturers like Nokia, Motorola and Sony Ericsson must be concerned by the emerging players rapid development and the high specifications they offer, even though it was unclear when they would deliver their products. Samsung SGH-Z100, Sanyo SUP-700e, LG U8100 and NEC e606 — reflect Asia/Pacific manufacturers belief that they can gain the upper hand in the 3G market. Their experience of supplying color phones with built-in cameras to Japan and South Korea gives them some advantages over the major GSM phone makers. However, the long delays to 3G networks give the big names a chance to catch up.

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Nokia today (just before CeBIT!) unveiled the Nokia 3300 - the music phone for digital entertainment. Designed specifically for enjoying music, the Nokia 3300 music phone incorporates a portable digital music player (MP3/AAC), a digital recorder and stereo FM radio. The Nokia 3300 is expected in 2nd quarter 2003.

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Siemens presented four phone models, just before the opening of CEBIT.
The Siemens A55: low-budget model without a colour screen, typical Siemens design, polyphonic ring tones, WAP 1.2 and picture phone book.
Siemens M55 is 4096 colour display phone with polyphonic ring tone composer. Other features: MMS, GPRS, WAP and support for clip-on camera.
Siemens SL55 is a phone split in two slices where you draw the underlying slice down to reveal the number pad. Main features: Tri-band, WAP 1.2, GPRS, MMS, e-mail, Java, colour display, IrDA. The phone measures 81.6 x 44.5 x 22 mm.
The Siemens SX1 is top range model. The operating system is Series 60 based on Symbian OS. Some of the features: expandable memory using memory card, built-in camera capable of taking small video clips, MP3 player, FM radio, Bluetooth, 65356 colour display, MMS. The weight is 110g and measuring 109×55x19 mm, which is slightly smaller than Sony Ericsson P800.

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Today Sony Ericsson revealed T610, the successor to the popular T68i. SE T610 has a large 128×160 pixels display with 65.635 colors and built-in camera.
Sony Ericsson also reviled a new low-end phone - T310, a replace of the T300.

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Sony Ericsson unveiled the T610 – a 65K colour screen mobile phone with inbuilt digital camera. The T610 is the first Sony Ericsson product with QuickShare™. The T610 is beautifully designed and built, just look at unique textured aluminium case. It measures 102 x 44 x 19 mm and weighs 95 g.

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