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

To: Jim Mullens who wrote (108369)	1/5/2012 11:46:16 AM
From: waitwatchwander	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197248

PVI was Qualcomm's original Mirasol fab partner. They likely did participate in the setting up of the Taiwan fab and ducked out around the time (end of 2009) the first good Mirasol demo units appeared. Those had the National Geographic magazine pictures and the toucan video. I'd be very surprised if the same equipment wasn't used for the demo and production units. The key to the differences in the launch product has to lie with the touch control or front lighting units. I'd find it highly unlikely that the backend MEMS units would be different at this stage of development. Message 26197700 Here is how Mirasol looked when PVI checked out ... youtube.com The bluish tinge of these takes make it look similar to todays product. External lighting effects which came later is likely what made more recent demo units look so good.

To: Jim Mullens who wrote (108369)	1/5/2012 11:53:58 AM
From: slacker711	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 197248

Another major thing to find out is why the production model looks very little like the prototypes???? ………It appears we’re losing ground rather than advancing the technology as Q moves from R&D to first generation commercial production. It might be due to differences between R&D units and production units (the front light might be just one difference) but some of it could also be due to the carefully controlled demos that we have seen previously. The fact that Q gets to set up the lighting and carefully choose which pics to show might have helped the display look better. As far as I can remember, I have only seen one video where a non-Qualcomm person was holding the device outside of a Qualcomm booth. Even the most recent videos where Q showed the Kyobo to a few bloggers in a hallway had Cheryl Goodman handling the device. Slacker