Today even a glance at the smartphone
market would be enough to say that most of the smartphones are packed
with processors made by Qualcomm. It refers to Nokia handsets, too. And
now Nokia’s signed a contract with ST-Ericsson, and from now on
ST-Ericsson will provide chips for Nokia’s future phones.
ST-Ericsson is a chip maker, but
Qualcomm has overshadowed all similar manufacturers. So the cooperation
between Nokia and ST-Ericsson can be a good example for other companies,
too. Unfortunately, we won’t see new chips on the upcoming Nokia Lumia 800 and Lumia 710,
because their specs list is already known. They’ll be packed with a
1.4GHz Scorpion processor with Qualcomm MSM8255 Snapdragon chipset, 3D
Graphics HW Accel and Adreno 205 GPU.
On the other hand, Qualcomm has no
reason to worry about, because Windows Phone is controlling only 2-3
percent of the market, and phones based on them won’t change anything.
Neverthless, there is one thing worth attention — Nokia’s started this
cooperation to buy cheaper chips, which will undoubtedly affect Nokia
smartphones’ price. So if everything is OK, and Nokia smartphones prove
to have really good performance, then I believe a lot of phone makers
will express readiness to cooperate with ST-Ericsson or similar
companies.
Well, time will give all the answers.
And let’s not forget about the U8500 dual-core SoC; very likely we’ll
see it sometime soon. If this happens, it’ll be absolutely impossible to
stop Nokia.
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