Qualcomm has become the latest company to be questioned around its webOS intentions, with CEO Paul Jacobs suggesting at IQ2011 this morning that the platform is "a little up in the air at the moment" but not denying any acquisition possibilities outright. Asked at the annual innovation showcase whether Qualcomm was interested in buying webOS from HP, which announced plans to axe development of smartphones and tablets like the Pre3 and TouchPad earlier this year, the CEO lamented the platform's fading star. "We do like the idea that webOS would continue" Jacobs admitted, "we put a lot of effort into that relationship."
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Qualcomm sidesteps webOS acquisition questions
Qualcomm Uplinq 2011 Keynote #1: 3D, Peer-to-Peer Gaming, Augmented Reality
This particular Qualcomm keynote on a lovely June 1st morning began with Dr Paul Jacobs, Chairman and CEO of Qualcomm noting some impressive numbers on a large stage with one gigantic colorful screen behind him flowing with ribbons of light. Jacobs noted that they’ve got word that mobile data is expected to grow 10-12 fold by 2015, this punctuated by the completely odd addition of “Real D 3D” glasses on everyone’s seats. Next Jacobs noted that 1 BILLION Qualcomm BREW-powered devices had already been shipped, and notes that “today’s market [is one where people] don’t really care about what their next PC is going to be.”
Motorola EX130 feature phone packs in dual screens
For the most part, geeks overlook the feature phone category altogether in favor of the smartphones which don’t generally cost that much more. A new feature phone from Motorola has turned up today the phone has one interesting feature that will have some taking a closer look at the EX130. This phone hasn’t gone official yet. It runs the Qualcomm Brew MP operating system that has been running on feature phones for a while now.
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The Daily Slash: January 7, 2011
What a week! While a few of us on the R3 crew were rolling around in different parts of the world that weren't Vegas, the bulk were rolling hard at CES 2011! The Consumer Electronics Show had blasts of this, slips of that, and a wacky array of stories and happenings that shall forever go down in the history books as a CES to be clicked with! How ever in the world will we organize all of this information? How about one big monster of a list of links, for starters? Who could we call for such a tast, hm? So much exclusive content, so much time time - I know! The Daily Slash! Get one of the biggest heaping helpings you've ever seen, below!
This isn't the first and it isn't going to be the last roundup post of CES news and info for this season. It's one big thwack. Comb with me, if you will, through the content and devour the ingredients. Joy! PREVIEW: my favorite is the Notion Ink Adam hands-on at CES 2011 - wowie!
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HTC Freestyle hitting AT&T running the Brew MP Platform
This phone due to AT&T will be shelled with a slim aluminum unibody and run the Brew MP platform. HTC has released all the specs, but not its price or date of release. The Freestyle will ship with a 3.2 inch HVGA display and a 3.2 MP camera as well. A functionality that sets this phone away from most of the others, is the built in FM transmitter.
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Peek-powered phones, PMPs & digital photo frames in licensing future
Simplistic messaging company Peek is looking to move away from standalone hardware and instead position itself as a software provider for budget-smartphone and consumer electronics manufacturers. CEO Amol Sarva told GigaOm that Peek's power-frugral software - which offers support for push-email, location-based services and basic social networking integration, all on 100MHz chips - is set to arrive on five phones in the next month, and on thirty by the end of 2011.
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Modu T touchscreen modular phone packs Brew OS; Android Modu W still to come
Modu held their launch event for the Modu T over the weekend, but expectations that it would be the company's first Android smartphone were disappointed. Instead, the Modu T runs Qualcomm's Brew OS - like the HTC Smart - on a QSC6270 processor, with a custom swipe-controlled UI and a 2.2-inch 240 x 320 touchscreen.
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HTC Smart Review
With a wealth of high-end smartphones on the market, and eye-catching alternatives such as the fourth-generation iPhone HD and WiMAX-toting HTC EVO 4G just around the corner, it’s easy to forget that the real sales movement happens down at the more affordable levels. Crashing into that market comes the HTC Smart, a smartphone with a spec-sheet that looks anaemic in comparison to most rivals but a similarly slender price tag to boot. Based on Qualcomm’s Brew MP OS – healthily reskinned with HTC Sense – the Smart hopes to pull in the entry-level smartphone crowd, graduating from their dumbphones. Does it deliver, or have HTC had to shave away too much to meet a bargain-basement price? Check out the full SlashGear review after the cut.
Qualcomm Uplinq 2010 discount for SlashGear readers!
Qualcomm may not be a household name, but if you’ve bought a smartphone in the past year or so they their chipsets are probably already in your home. The madly popular Snapdragon chipset has pretty much cornered the market in high-end Windows Mobile and Android devices, while the company’s other ranges fill in many of the gaps left over. SlashGear is off to Uplinq 2010, Qualcomm’s mobile developer conference, to find out what all the fuss is about, but the company have offered us a deal for developers reading the site to come along too. That’s in the shape of a sizeable 20-percent discount on the registration fee.
HTC Smart first-impressions
The HTC Smart has just dropped onto the SlashGear desk, and while this budget BREW handset may not have the same wow-factor as one of the company’s more recent Android smartphones like the Desire or Legend, it’s interesting simply for representing a push from the company into the mainstream. Qualcomm’s BREW OS keeps things ticking, but on top of that is the HTC Sense UI complete with Friend Stream social network integration. Check out our first-impressions after the cut.
O2 HTC Smart hands-on [Video]
HTC's second launch event of MWC 2010 may have been a little more subdued than the Desire/Legend/HD mini announcement, but the phone it detailed may reach a whole lot more users than that trio. Along with carrier O2, the company have announced availability of the HTC Smart, an entry-level device running Qualcomm's Brew MP OS on a 300MHz processor. Check out our hands-on video demo after the cut.
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HTC Smart BREW smartphone targets budget buyers [Updated with specs]
HTC say their new, Qualcomm BREW-based HTC Smart offers a new, smartphone experience to the masses, and while we reckon the masses are doing a pretty decent job on their own ä press release is still pretty light on specifications - we're waiting to hear back from HTC for full details - but since it looks to be the same device as we knew as the Touch.B we're guessing it'll have the same specifications.
Update: HTC have come through with specs for the Smart; full details after the cut.
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