Nokia to focus on speed in 2010 Symbian phone

Nokia is making its first phone based on the Snapdragon processor, Qualcomm chief Paul Jacobs has told the Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat. He doesn't say when or detail the hardware itself but does say it will use some form of Symbian. Besides high speed, the use of a chipset would also make for a smaller footprint as Qualcomm normally builds in the cellular, Wi-Fi and other hardware that needs discrete chips.

No representative from Nokia has commented on the accuracy of Jacobs' claim, which was captured by an IntoMobile reader.

A deal of the sort would come well over a year after the two settled a patent dispute that had previously kept Qualcomm chips entirely out of Nokia's handsets. The latter has lately been criticized for relatively sluggish processors in phones like the N97 and may have used a much faster ARM Cortex-A8 chip in the N900 precisely to address the performance gap. Snapdragon processors already run at a high 1GHz today and should reach speeds of 1.3GHz and 1.5GHz later this year, including dual-core models.

By Electronista Staff