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To: slacker711 who wrote (73015)1/2/2008 11:14:11 PM
From: engineer  Respond to of 196816
 
Intel made the first Nokia smartphone for them in 1996. They had such bad power numbers it hardly worked at all. Big clumsy, ugley, based on a 386 chip.

At the same time, Qualcomm/Kyocera made a smartphone which ran just like the phone. Days of standby time, lots of features, small size.

Maybe this is why Intel sold the handset chipset group. they have the technology (way ahead of everyone), but have no idea how to use it or design for it.