Qualcomm has announced a new addition to its line of Snapdragon chipsets. The new chipset promises to improve the performance of smartphones and improve the battery life as well as enhancing both 2D and 3D graphics. The chipset is called the Snapdragon QSD8650A and is expected to begin sampling by the end of 2009. The processor included with the chipset runs ... continued »

Nokia and Qualcomm have announced a partnership to develop advanced UMTS S60 mobile devices for North America market. The devices will be based on Qualcomm’s MSM7xxx-series and MSM8xxx-series chipsets and expected to launch in mid-2010. continued »

While all the talk has been about 3G as of late, we all know that the "next big thing" in the mobile phone world will be 4G LTE, which both AT&T and Verizon will launch in the next few years. And though 4G LTE will be capable of 100 mbps data transfer, we're not stuck with the slowest of the ... continued »

Well, it looks like it's finally over, folks. Yes, I'm talking about the Nokia and Qualcomm patent feud that feels like it's been going on for the past century. Okay, so really they've only been fighting since April of 2007 but it sure has felt like a long time!   But now it's over without much fanfare. Basically, both sides agreed after ... continued »

Sprint's upcoming QChat service is definitely something to get excited about, as it will finally enable seamless push to talk between Nextel and Sprint subscribers. So it only figures that Sprint announcing 40 new markets for the service, and four new phones, is some big news. QChat will have comparable latency to iDEN, which makes it the perfect technology to ... continued »

Sprint and Verizon have always been bitter rivals, engaging in price wars, coverage wars, and device wars. The two use CDMA, and both have the same technologies, and they both have the same pool of phones to choose from to carry. So when Sprint announced they would be using QChat to provide the next generation of push to talk service, ... continued »

Monday just got a ton more exciting thanks to this leaked slide show that supposedly comes internally from Verizon. The slide show reveals all sorts of information about new devices, device upgrades, network upgrades, and new services. It is not known where the slide came from or how much it can be trusted, but it looks very official. continued »

Devices today are becoming increasingly complex, but for all their complexity, the ability to play Flash videos is almost always limited to smart phones. Qualcomm and Adobe though, are going to change that by making dumb phones a little more flash friendly, announcing that they will bring flash to the BREW platform. BREW is primarily used here by Verizon Wireless ... continued »

Qualcomm wants to ensure some revenue in the U.K. as they have just acquired 40MHz of L band spectrum across the pond. The spectrum is prime for just about any technology. It is assumed though that Qualcomm will deploy its proprietary MediaFLO mobile TV service on the spectrum. This is of course if the European Union allows it. continued »

As was expected, AT&T's Mobile TV service went live on Sunday. The service is now live in 58 markets, and is expanding. The technology is Qualcomm's MediaFLO, which runs on the 700MHz spectrum. Since this is not AT&T's network, you will not be charged voice or data for using it. You do however have to subscribe to a Mobile TV ... continued »