Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Communications chipmaker Broadcom plans to make a range of chips for wireless applications on mobile phones using the Symbian S60 smartphone development platform. The semiconductor company intends to bring to market a range of 3G mobile, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS processor products.
S60 smartphone software is developed by Nokia and
licensed to a number of other handset manufacturers, such as Samsung,
LG and Panasonic.
Broadcom has a range of chips intended for the smartphone market,
including the BCM2153 7.2Mbps HSDPA multimedia baseband processor, the
BCM2820 VideoCore Applications Processor and BCM2724 VideoCore
Co-processor, the BCM4325 Bluetooth+WiFi+FM device and BCM2048
Bluetooth + FM radio transceiver. Broadcom also recently acquired
GlobalLocate for GPS solutions.
According to Broadcom, being a member of the S60 community will give
the company access to a market of about 50 million handsets a year.
“Broadcom joining the S60 community is a very positive development that
will further enhance the silicon resources available to smartphone
makers committed to S60 software,” said Matti Vänskä, Vice President,
Mobile Software Sales and Marketing, Nokia. “The combination of
advanced S60 software capabilities and pre-integration with Broadcom’s
silicon solutions will help drive new smartphone designs and shorten
time-to-market for introducing these products.”
“Broadcom is very proud to join the S60 Product Creation Community,
which allows us to offer our advanced mobile solutions together with
the world’s leading Mobile Open OS platform,” said Yossi Cohen, Senior
Vice President and General Manager of Broadcom’s Mobile Platforms
Group. “This development is a strong validation of Broadcom’s
commitment to establishing itself as the technology leader in the
cellular market, and we look forward to working closely with the
community to quickly bring superior and exciting handsets to market.”
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