Mobile vendor strategies - 15/11/06

Motorola and Qualcomm will collaborate on W-CDMA handsets for global markets. Motorola will use Qualcomm' s 3G chip for its W-CDMA handsets.

Qualcom announced it has integrated W-CDMA and HSDPA features into a single chip, refered as WEDGE (W-CDMA and GSM/GPRS/EDGE) and HEDGE (HSDPA/W-CDMA and GSM/GPRS/EDGE), along with a radio transceiver, baseband modem and multimedia processor with power management functions