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grovercg

Jun 8, 2007, 1:41 PM
LG and Samsung scramble over Qualcomm ban
By Maija Palmer in London, Jung-a Song in Seoul and Chris Nuttall in San Francisco

Published: June 8 2007 19:22 | Last updated: June 8 2007 19:22

LG and Samsung, the Korean handset makers, are scrambling to ensure that their sales are not disrupted by a decision earlier this week by the US International Trade Commission to ban imports of all new phones containing chips made by Qualcomm.

Both LG and Samsung are key Qualcomm customers and seen as hardest hit by the ban.

LG, which has the heaviest exposure to the US CDMA market, is pinning its hopes on getting the ban suspended until an appeal can be heard. It has joined Qualcomm, AT&T and Sprint in petitioning the courts to do this. The ap...
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StoreLead

Jun 8, 2007, 5:20 PM
wow.

this sucks!
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colione112

Jun 8, 2007, 9:04 PM
Well they could always go back and rework the Razr 2 and use their own chips like they did in the v3xx...
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Gemini1706

Jun 11, 2007, 5:21 PM
Motorola do not use Qualcomm IC in RAZR2.

It is all Freescale IC 🙂

What a misinforming article.
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nextel18

Jun 11, 2007, 7:32 PM
Actually, Motorola does use Qualcomm’s chipsets especially in the RAZR2.
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Gemini1706

Jun 11, 2007, 9:04 PM
Not for HSDPA.
looool

For CDMA ofcourse, everyone uses Qualcomm for CDMA, but NOT for WCDMA/HSDPA.
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Gemini1706

Jun 11, 2007, 9:05 PM
Not for HSDPA.
looool

For CDMA ofcourse, everyone uses Qualcomm for CDMA, but NOT for WCDMA/HSDPA.

And the ban is on what?
3G?
There you go 🙂
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algorithmplus

Jun 11, 2007, 10:35 PM
Gemini1706 said:

And the ban is on what?
3G?
There you go 🙂


The ban is not on 3g. It is on chips that infringe patents, and the chips are all 3g, but not all 3g chips infringe the patent.
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Gemini1706

Jun 11, 2007, 11:05 PM
For 3G, Motorola uses Freescale ICs, NOT QUALCOMM.

Period.
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nextel18

Jun 25, 2007, 5:36 PM
Can you show us where it says that Qualcomm is not used in Motorola’s WCDMA/HSPA devices?
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