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To: engineer who wrote (43355)	10/5/1999 3:47:00 PM
From: w molloy	Read Replies (1) of 152472

Any of the handset mfgs should be bidding on this division as it would provide them with an ability to improve their interal radio quality long term. I agree with you that potential bidders will be looking to improve the quality of their own 'phones BUT... I'm sure that QCOM will have cherry picked the divisions top engineers responsible for the superior radio aspects of the Q-phones. The successful bidder is likely to be disappointed in this respect. However, The MSM series chip is not the easiest chip to integrate into a phone, due to the relatively low quality Application Programmers Interface. The handset division clearly has software chaps that can aid a third party utilise the MSM chips more effectively. w.

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