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TI Getting Into 3G

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Nov 29, 2005, 2:07 PM   by (staff)

Texas Instruments together with NTT DoCoMo today introduced a new WCDMA chipset. The chips offer a full set of features not just for the Japanese market, but for the global 3G market. It is both WCDMA (HSDPA) and GSM/GPRS (EDGE) and includes complete multimedia features. Despite the rich, advanced feature set, the V2230 is low cost chipset that one TI Vice President suggest could lower the cost of handsets 10 to 30 percent. The V2230 will eventually be sold globally, but because it was developed jointly with DoCoMo, it will premiere in Japanese handsets from NEC and Panasonic next year.

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EPIC_TRUTH

Nov 30, 2005, 2:19 PM

I don't see how that will save us money...

I don't see the 10-30% savings being passed to the customer in the form of subsidized phones. I don't expect to see the savings from mobile mfg as well but see these groups pocketing the difference in their favor instead.
That's the way the free market works. When mad cow disease struck the United States, farmers/ranchers were left selling their cattle for next to nothing, yet the price of beef in grocery stores didn't fall at all.
cellularman2006

Nov 29, 2005, 5:05 PM

?

does this mean nec will be making phones in america again like they did for at&t? man nec phones sucked. i do like a couple of their euro phones though. i also hope they (TI) can build a nice inexpensive chipset that doesn't have many problems.
cellularman2006 said:
does this mean nec will be making phones in america again like they did for at&t? man nec phones sucked. i do like a couple of their euro phones though. i also hope they (TI) can build a nice inexpensive chips
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