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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Moderated Thread - please read rules before posting -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Eric L who wrote (44986)	3/10/2005 1:01:44 PM
From: slacker711	Respond to of 196564

Koreans are pretty quick to socket a chip and annonce product. Hopefully they bring the phones to market quicker than other models they have announced and shown at CeBIT. In March 2003 in Hannover Samsung showed the MSM6200 based SGH-Z100 which they were trialing at Vodafone Spain (initially announced November 2002), and LG showed the LG-U8100. I definitely agree that the real test for Qualcomm/LG/Samsung will be in actually getting these handsets to market. The testing process takes an inordinate amount of time in CDMA. The gap between a FCC approval, where the handset design has to be locked down, and commericialization is sometimes huge....and this is for a mature technology. However, it does seem that the sampling to trialing/display has improved since the MSM6200. It was initially sampling in June of '02. cdmatech.com Just for another comparison, I dont know of any MSM6150/6550 based handsets that have been shown yet....and it sampled in June '04. It is possible that it is inside one of the handsets that has been on display but usually one of the Japanese or Korean sites publicizes that fact. Do you know if the model shown has the QUALCOMM MSM6275 or if it has the Samsung developed 'SBM5100'? I'm assumming that it's the MSM6275 since supposedly according to the March 7 Korea IT News The handset seems to only support a 1.8Mbps data rate. It is possible that the Samsung chip has the same limitations as the MSM6275 but all of the other chipset manufacturers are supporting higher data rates with their HSDPA chipsets. Nothing concrete, but it does lend some support to the fact that it is a MSM6275 (handset also supports EDGE). I didnt notice it the first time, but it seems that they are running data tests with the handset (at least that is my interpretation)....1.3Mbps throughput is shown. k-tai.impress.co.jp Slacker