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Re: INTC - The Handheld Game - 3G Multimedia Tornado - Symbian
<< Intel Gorilla (again) >>
I was just reading old copies of the "Register" for Symbian news and ran across this June item:
"We've been intrigued by Intel's entry into the cellular handset business, thanks to the acquisition of TDMA and CDMA technology and the partnership with Mitsubishi to produce 3G wireless devices based on its StrongARM chips. Myers sees them as joining the likes of Texas Instruments and Qualcomm as one of the four main air interface chipset suppliers."
Then saw this item again referring to Intel and its wireless chip capabilities:
>> KENWOOD LICENSES SYMBIAN
Tony Smith
November 13, 2000
The Register
Kenwood, better known for its ghetto-blasting in-car hi-fi rigs, is making a dash for the hi-tech world of mobile comms and multimedia, courtesy of Symbian and Intel.
The Japanese consumer electronics company said today it has joined the Symbian alliance, and will use the operating system developer's 32-bit Epoc 32 platform as the basis for a family of PDA-cum-cellular handsets.
The smartphones will initially be aimed at the Japanese market, but won't ship until 2002 when they can take advantage of next-generation W-CDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access) cellular networks, Kenwood said.
Kenwood's Symbian chums include Motorola, Nokia, Ericsson, Psion and Matsushita, but its key partner here is Intel. Kenwood's phones will be based on Intel's ARM-derived XScale embedded CPU, and since Chipzilla is handling the XScale port of Epoc, Kenwood is probably getting processor and software platform as a job lot from the chip company.
Kenwood's focus will be on mobile multimedia, leveraging the company's "extensive experience in the consumer market", according to Kenwood Director General Manager Masakazu Kaneko. Its products will be going up against smartphones from Symbian's mobile-phone making founders plus Sony and Sanyo. <<
Old Gorilla, New tricks.
<< Samsung just announced .17 Micron RDRAM >>
Them too, facilitating the mobile wireless multimedia tornado around the corner. Check these sexy GSM/CDMA devices:
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- Eric - |
