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Qualcomm Shows Off Rural Mobile PC Base
Qualcomm has launched an alternative PC - which it aims to make available for rural and emerging markets where landline access to the internet is not available. The company says that its Kayak PC alternative fills the niche that exists between desktop PCs, which normally require landlines or separate accessories for connectivity, and Internet-capable wireless devices.
The Kayak PC alternative includes a reference design and recommended software specifications that will be made available to device manufacturers. Manufacturers can then design a wide range of devices based on the Kayak reference design that take advantage of the high level of integration, inherent connectivity and comprehensive functionality. The Kayak reference design uses Qualcomm's dual-core Mobile Station Modem MSM7xxx-series chipsets to provide both computing and connectivity.
In the future, commercial Kayak-based devices may also be powered by Snapdragon solutions. Initial Kayak PC alternative units, manufactured by Taiwan-based Inventec Corp, will be used to initiate user trials during the first quarter of 2009 in Southeast Asia on both CDMA2000 and WCDMA networks.
"Emerging markets will be a huge growth driver for the telecommunications industry in the coming years," said Mark Hirsch, vice president of corporate marketing, Inventec Corporation. "We are very excited about Qualcomm's innovative Kayak reference design that leverages wireless networks to bring Internet connectivity to developing markets."
"The broad footprint of 3G networks means that wireless is the answer to Internet access for worldwide markets - especially in emerging regions," said Luis Pineda, senior vice president of marketing and product management for Qualcomm CDMA Technologies. "The Kayak PC alternative is a great example of how Qualcomm is leveraging cloud computing over wireless broadband networks to help bring new areas of the world into the global online community for the first time."
Posted to the site on 13th November 2008