Purple Labs has signed a memorandum of understanding to acquire the mobile applications suite and software engineering team of Sagem Mobiles, a French manufacturer that develops mobile phones branded by Sony Ericsson, Orange, Vodafone and other customers. The asset sale to Purple Labs is linked to an announcement by SAFRAN, a French technology group, that it is selling its Sagem Mobiles business unit to Sofinnova Partners. SAFRAN will join Sofinnova as a shareholder in the new entity, which will be called Sagem Wireless. 

Purple Labs and Sagem Wireless also agreed to enter into a multi-year license and development agreement, whereby Purple Labs will provide Sagem Wireless with all of the application software for its products, and all of the software for its future 3G Linux devices based on LiMo Foundation requirements.

Both deals are expected to close by the end of this year, subject to the approval of employee representative bodies. Based in Chambéry, France, Purple Labs is funded by three European venture capital firms: Sofinnova Partners, Earlybird Venture Capital, and Partners Group.

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Sagem announced the release of Sagem Bleu 453x, a new affordable handset for the Indian mobile market. The 453x is an entry-level device targeted for users who don’t care too much about advanced functionality. The features a 1.5 inch screen with 128 x 128 pixels and support for 65K colors, GSM connectivity with GPRS, MP3 player, Video player (AVI, MP4 and 3GP supported), FM radio, Bluetooth with A2DP, mobile tracker and microSD card support for several extra GBs, allowing users to store a de

Sagem phones are hard to come by but they are out there, mostly looking like Nokia or Motorola phone. With their new my721x So iCE, they have gone Korean for a little Shine magic. Besides the very cool metal casing, the phone has an built-in 3.2 MP camera with 6X digital zoom, Bluetooth, FM Radio with RDS and 3D speaker.

No pricing has been announced but the phone will ship in May.

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Applying tri-band technology, it can travelling anyplace. It also has a very amazing battery life: 3hours of talk-time, 6 hours of music playback, and 200 hours on standby.

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