Replies to post #11845 on Qualcomm Inc (QCOM)

[Jim Mullens]

DR, IPR question / K_QC , thanks for the NOK Nokia's Preminet article and these interesting snips-

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“Nokia on Sunday unveiled Preminet, a "one-stop shop" for wireless operators to sell ring tones, games, picture messaging and other cell phone paraphernalia, a move that opens a new battle front with nemesis Qualcomm. “

Preminet is very similar to Qualcomm's BREW, which is now used by about three dozen carriers.

Nokia's new system excludes BREW applications (penalize the BREW developers???) , instead favoring ones based on Sun Microsystems' J2ME programming language. BREW was rejected because its proliferation is no match for J2ME, which is embedded in nearly one-third of the world's 1.7 billion cell phones, said Nokia director Steen Thygesen. By comparison, Qualcomm estimated in October there were 38 million BREW devices on the market.

"BREW is an interesting, proprietary solution for an early stage market," Thygesen said. "It's for carriers that want to get a start. We're looking at a system for the longer term market." (can’t resist a Q put-down)

From the NOK PR -

“Consisting of a master catalog, a service delivery platform and an optional innovative client application, Preminet provides a turnkey solution that initially is available as a hosted offering by Nokia.

“Preminet provides a turnkey solution that initially is available as a hosted offering by Nokia.”
"Until now, each operator has been responsible for maintaining hundreds of relationships with individual Java and Symbian OS developers and sourcing, and testing each application before bringing them to the end-user," said Lee Epting, vice president, Forum Nokia.

FWIW- My comments / questions -

1. NOK’s Preminet appears to be similar to the Q’s BREW, again a few years late but better than never for the top notch NOK engineers. NOK’s Kinda getting used to being “better late than never”- CDMAOne, EV-DO, Integrated chipsets, BREW, ------.

2. Re: “Until now, each operator has been responsible for maintaining hundreds of relationships with individual Java and Symbian OS developers.....”.

Yep, except those operators who got a head-start using BREW.

3. Re: “Preminet provides a turnkey solution that initially is available as a hosted offering by Nokia.”

Not much was mention of other handset manufactures in the PR’s / article. Is it only available on NOK handsets?

Wonder what NOK’s cut is, don’t seem to recall that being mentioned????

4. DR, do you know if the Q has any IPR on BREW stuff that might come into play?