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All posts tagged "td-scdma"


Monday, August 31, 2009

HTC Qilin Running TI OMAP3

Posted by Nurhisham Hussein in "Pocket PC Hardware" @ 11:00 AM

http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/...t-of-necessity/

"We've been able to confirm a wmpoweruser.com report that HTC's upcoming Qilin for China Mobile will be underpinned by an honest-to-goodness OMAP3, which you'd think might rock the Qualcomm boat but HTC's decision was actually very easy: the fully-integrated MSM7200 isn't available in a TD-SCDMA configuration. That's good for Qilin, good for China Mobile, bad for customers of every other Whitestone variant in the world."

What's the big deal? Well, the TI OMAP3440 is the same processor backing the Palm Pre and the iPhone 3GS and is a relative rarity for HTC and Windows Mobile devices generally - which is a shame because it's both pretty powerful and highly media-centric. Unfortunately, given the less than stellar performance of Snapdragon mobile units todate (which to be fair may be due to driver optimisation or other ROM issues), it appears that this may be a one-off for HTC as the Qualcomm partnership means that the Snapdragon will be HTC's future default high-end processor.


HTC And China Mobile Have A Baby: Meet The Qilin

Posted by Nurhisham Hussein in "Pocket PC Hardware" @ 08:30 AM

http://wmpoweruser.com/?p=7047

"Dopod CEO Dennis Chen said the Qilin handset is the first result of China Mobile's $7 million in subsidies to encourage TD-SCDMA handset development. Dopod has expanded investment in manpower and funding towards TD-SCDMA R&D and will release numerous high-end TD-SDCMA (sic) handsets next year."

The HTC Qilin has some pretty good genes: WM 6.5, 600MHz TI OMAP processor, 3.6" WVGA screen, GPS, 5MP camera, and CMMB Mobile TV and is apparently based on HTC's Whitestone design. The TD-SCDMA standard is China's home-grown 3G standard, which means that the Qilin won't have access to 3G networks outside of China. Having said that, HTC and China Mobile have just signed an MOU to partner up in R&D, market research, and product development (read the press release here), so the Qilin will be just the first in a series of handsets HTC will develop for China Mobile. Scuttlebutt has it that another 6 models are under development, and China Mobile are working on expanding TD-SCDMA (and the TD-LTE 4G standard) adoption outside of China. The Qilin is slated for release in December, which puts it just in time for runup to the Chinese New Year holidays.


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