15 Manufacturers will use Snapdragon to make ‘Ultra Mobile PC’s’ in 2008.

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Posted on 09 April 2008 by Chippy

Another Snapdragon-related report from Stacey at GigaOM who quotes Qualcomm as saying they have 15 device manufacturers lined up for Snapdragon-based devices that should be available in 2008.

That’s a lot. But not if Qualcomms or Stacey’s definition of a UMPC is different from mine. If we re-name the devices, mobile Internet smartphones and consider the prototypes shown at CES then I can believe it because in the smartphone world, every manufacturer has to play the Internet game in the top quartile of their product ranges. Anything less than a Cortex-based device is risking being under-powered for the heavyweight world of ‘real’ Internet.

I’m excited that the ARM-based devices are moving into the mobile Internet market. It means competition and learning. Take the best of everything in 2008/9 and 2010 is going to bring some absolute gems based on Cortex 9, Mobile-ITX and Moorestown.

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From Qualcomm at WITS: Samsung mid in June. | UMPCPortal - The Ultra Mobile Computing reference site says:
June 19th, 2008 at 11:10 am
[...] have already said that up to 15 Snapdragon-based devices would be released in 2008 and Samsung, along with HTC, have long been known as customers so maybe we really can expect [...]
ARM-core Snapdragon Netbook demonstrated | UMPCPortal - The Mobile Internet and Computing Reference Site says:
December 8th, 2008 at 11:46 am
[...] smaller, that the new ARM-based platforms could make a bigger impact. Those ARM-based devices were supposed to be in the market already but appear to have been delayed. According to word-of-mouth reports that i’m hearing though, [...]
ARM-core Snapdragon Netbook demonstrated | Mid Moves says:
December 8th, 2008 at 8:37 pm
[...] smaller, that the new ARM-based platforms could make a bigger impact. Those ARM-based devices were supposed to be in the market already but appear to have been delayed. According to word-of-mouth reports that i’m hearing though, [...]