Qualcomm's new dual-core QSD8672 Snapdragon chip, which can run at up to 1.5GHz, will start shipping in the fourth quarter of 2010, the company said yesterday. This means manufacturers could release 1.5GHz smartphones by Christmas, although early 2011 seems more likely.
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Nokia Comes with Music, Nokia's unlimited music service, is being rebranded as Ovi Music Unlimited, according to a report on allaboutsymbian.com. The two-year-old service, which was said to only have 107,000 users worldwide last summer, is available via certain Nokia handsets and desktop computers.
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A new study from ABI Research says about 16% of mobile data is diverted away from conventional mobile networks today – and that figure is expected to treble to 48% by 2015. However, the overall amount of data traffic will have grown by a factor of 30 by then, which means that 'offloaded' data will expand 100-fold.
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It's been announced that the solar-powered PUMA touchscreen mobile phone will be distributed in the UK by Elite Mobile through an exclusive partnership agreement with Sagem Wireless. The PUMA Phone, described as a 'smartphone' with a proprietary operating system, is equipped with a 2.8-inch screen, a 3.2-megapixel camera, multimedia player, FM radio, expandable memory, GPS and pedometer.
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The second quarter of this year was the best quarter ever for connections via the O2 UK 'partner channel', according to a statement from the company today. Blackberry connections through partners also reached a new quarterly high, as did connections via O2 Centre of Excellence partners and both of O2's strategic partners (Avenir and Azzurri).
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