Siemens is one of the largest (possibly the largest) company in Germany. They are into everything, including being one of the largest supplies of GSM phones in Germany. They have a very large (>$2B) Semi group, which got spun out on it's own last year. They made the S4 GSM phone in a JV with Sony in 1992-1994, which by the way looks exactly like the QCP-800, and uses the same battery.
they have wanted to get into CDMA for quite awhile now and went the route of the big company (I can make it myself and save a ton of money), but unfortunately didn't count on failing in their Texas division. After two years of trying, they finally shut it down and went home. Now they are looking to open up the CDMA channel source again. So if they had something to trade, such as WCDMA connections, silicon, boards, patents, and they wanted to help make a triple mode phone, wouldn't some sort of JV make sense? Perhaps it would get Q into the WCDMA/GSM chipset world real fast.
I would think it would add a ton of value to the Q, but if it were me, I would NEVER give up the phone division, only leverage it up with more possiblites to make new devices. |
