By Ben Charny Staff Writer, CNET News.com Published: October 19, 2004, 12:40 PM PDT
Qualcomm on Tuesday announced that it will supply Siemens with third-generation cell phone chips.
Under the deal, European phone maker Siemens plans to produce several lines that use the chips. Siemens competitors Motorola and Nokia make similar cell phones. Siemens did not disclose additional details of the upcoming high-speed phones.
Qualcomm last supplied the German handset maker with cell phone chips in the late 1990s, when Siemens made a run at the North American market, according to Luis Pineda, a Qualcomm vice president of marketing and product management.
The new deal between the two companies is another sign of the wireless industry's focus on W-CDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access), a third-generation, or 3G, cell phone standard on which the Qualcomm chips rely. W-CDMA connects at 384 kilobits per second, which is fast enough to give wired broadband providers a run for their money in some markets.
EF81本來在英國預計會搭配Vodafone/3UK...等業者推出,結果最後沒有一家業者推出(通常沒有推出的原因都是由於在系統商那邊的network test failed) 最後也只找到Phones4U(我服務的公司)這家聯鎖店和通路來出貨,且只能搭配Vodafone網路. 剛推出時,我曾多次向客人推薦購買此機,但遺憾的是,我從未在我手上賣出過任何一部EF81,EF81在推出不到兩個月的時間,可能是由於銷量不如預期,馬上便被公司打入Clearance(清倉)手機行列中...