Mobile Stew

Vodafone is set to launch its own brand of handsets after signing a five-year deal with China's Huawei Technologies.  I'm surprised that Vodafone hadn't done this already.  I don't think we will be seeing cutting-edge smartphones, but rather good value mass-market phones.

This could have a major impact on the sales of Nokia, Sony Ericsson etc if Vodafone try to dominate the middle of the market.