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Qualcomm To Integrate Wi-Fi Into 3G Phones
September 23, 2005

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By Mobile Pipeline Staff Courtesy of Mobile Pipeline

Qualcomm, which develops chipsets for mobile phones, said Friday it plans to integrate Wi-Fi capabilities into chipsets to be used on 3G phones.
Specifically, the company said it would integrate Wi-Fi technology developed by Philips into its Mobile Station Modem chipsets. Phones that use those chipsets will support both the W-CDMA and CDMA2000 flavors of 3G cellular data as well as 802.11g and 802.11b wireless LANs.

Converging the two technologies enables data or voice calls to be placed over cellular networks and wireless LANs. The Wi-Fi-enabled chipsets are expected to be available to handset manufacturers by the end of 2005, Qualcomm said ina statement.