What’s this? Someone in the mobile phone industry who doesn’t think the iPhone is perfect? Wash your mouth out, Qualcomm’s Chief Operating Officer Sanjay Jha!
“There are opportunities to do some things better,” said Jha, speaking at one of those ‘industry analyst’ gatherings at Qualcomm’s headquarters in San Diego, that just happened to invite some members of the press.
To address those opportunities, Qualcomm have been working with Google on a new handset running Google’s Android operating system. Jha was cagey about the specification of this proposed iPhone beater, although the purpose of the meeting seemed to be a briefing on the company’s new SnapDragon voice & data chipset, which feature a 1Ghz processor and support for an 8 Megapixel camera and high definition video.
Confusingly, a spokesperson confirmed that Qualcomm has not announced plans to port Android to SnapDragon.
Not really sure what we have learned here, other than that some more mobile makers are looking to Android as the only possible way of competing with the iPhone and that mentioning it whenever shareholders might be listening is considered a Good Idea.
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