18 February 2009

Nokia Making Symbian
Powered Snapdragon Phone

In a recent interview with Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat, Qualcomm chief Paul Jacobs reportedly stated that two companies are working together to develop advanced smartphone running under Symbian OS and powered with Qualcomm's Snapdragon processor.

Nokia and Qualcomm are leaders in advanced wireless technologies, and this new level of cooperation will bring exceptional leaps in mobile performance to people around the world. The first mobile devices based on this collaboration are expected to launch in mid-2010 and to be powered with Symbian^3 Platform.

Snapdragon is the name of the architecture of a family of chipsets with an ARM-based CPU. The architecture was developed by Qualcomm (which calls Snapdragon a "platform") for use in smartphones and mobile computing devices.

The Snapdragon platform is designed for real time ubiquitous computing with low power consumption for day-long battery life. The Snapdragon application processor core is called Scorpion and is similar to the ARM Cortex-A8 core. All Snapdragon processors contain the circuitry to decode High-Definition (HD) video at 720p resolution.

The latest QSD8672 chip uses 45 nm technology and includes two CPU cores running at up to 1.5 GHz. QSD8672 product targets advanced mobile computing devices and includes integrated HSPA+, GPS, Bluetooth, full high definition video recording and playback, Wi-Fi and mobile TV technologies (MediaFLO, DVB-H and ISDB-T).