May 28 2003
Nokia and CDMA
So… Nokia has been doing a poor job of trying to enter the CDMA mobile phone market for a while now. Tried to do their own R&D without devoting enough resources. Verizon has complained that the Nokia phones just are not up to snuff. This could be ending…Nokia has closed down their CDMA chip development group and will be working with ST Microelectronics and Texas Instruments to develop new chipsets. Should mean some interesting phones next year. I’m not sure if that Love-Hate Qualcomm-Nokia relationship is good or bad…probably good from a competition and product diversity point of view.