Flaws discovered in a small shipment of Ericsson's advanced GPRS phone, the R520, will not delay the phone's Australian launch, according to the Swedish telecommunications giant.
The company recalled an unspecified number of R520 handsets from the Scandinavian market earlier this week to correct a fault in the phones' factory settings.
Cameron Cooper, general manager for marketing in Ericsson Australia's consumer products and services division said, "the fault is very minor and isolated to a small number of phones distributed to Sweden and one or two other Scandinavian countries." The flaw degrades the phones' standby performance by around 10%, reducing the amount of time required before the phones' battery needs to be re-charged.
The R520, which Ericsson refers to as "the most advanced phone ever produced" by the company on their Web site, is the first mobile handset capable of supporting General Packet Radio Services (GPRS). Telstra, who have been working with Ericsson to develop GPRS in Australia, used an R520 handset to demonstrate the new mobile network's capabilities in trials last March.
Ericsson expects the phone to be launched in the Australian market next May but said an exact date would depend on the result of network trials currently in progress
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