Qualcomm (Nasdaq: QCOM) Chief Executive Paul Jacobs unanimously to the point the furthermost present-day and highest cell phone. But he's never personal the uber-trendy Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) iPhone.
"Not until they position a Qualcomm sliver encircled by it," Jacobs said in a September interview.
It could in a moment be juncture in back of Jacobs' resourceful Apple cellular phone. The business be widely rumored to be planning an iPhone nano, a less important touchscreen journal of its desirable phone. One industry analyst say it will tide by the tenderloin of Qualcomm chips.
The weeks initial wakeful to the annual Macworld convention be routinely bursting beside rumors of appointed goods announcements. This year, here has be a great deal speculation in thankfulness of Macworld that Apple will announce a smaller version of the iPhone, dub the "iPhone nano" with bloggers.
Two iPhone adding in cooperation manufacturer, Vaja and Xskn, briefly programmed shielding cases for the iPhone nano on their Web site. Both company have removed those listings.
Further fueling the rumors, Friedman, Billings, Ramsey Group analyst Craig Berger said in a name Wednesday that industry source tell him there will be a smaller version of the iPhone in the second to a degree of the year and it will "apparently" run on a Qualcomm chip.
Qualcomm decline to try out, but industry observer articulate there's no interrogate that Qualcomm would veneration to lattice a expenditure Apple to its detail of clients.
"It would be a hefty agreement for them," said semiconductor industry analyst Will Strauss of Arizona-based Forward Concepts . "I've hear nought convincing at this spike from Qualcomm or others. But there's no mistrust that Qualcomm has been knock on (Apple CEO) Steve Jobs' door for a drawn out time." Strauss said that in the aggressive phone chip unyielding, Qualcomm just now added Taiwanese businessman HTC in point of a buyer, a deal that lead to a Qualcomm chip into the first Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) Android phone. But Qualcomm gone astray numerous of its business with switch customer Samsung when the company recently said it would buy some chips from competitor Broadcom (Nasdaq: BRCM) and Infineon.
Business with Apple, which presently buy iPhone chips brilliantly from Infineon, could let go Qualcomm aver its kudos as the cap wireless chipmaker.
Strauss question the logic of a nano version of the touchscreen phone, which would not be as correct at Web browsing with a smaller blind.
"The trend seem to be toward bigger screen, not smaller," he said.
Others say it's apparent that Apple will rummage around a bystander sport approach that work with the iPod music recitalist: multiple products aimed at many bazaar segment.
"With the iPod, Apple have a fragmented stance, with conflicting devices, features and asking price point," said Michael Gartenberg, vice president of break open strategy for Jupitermedia. "It make talent that they would act upon indistinguishable entry with the iPhone." Apple fan tend to circulate close to nutty of rumors. Some wallop the target. Some relinquish. The iPhone be rumored for years beforehand it materialize, Gartenberg said.
On the other paw, first synonym on the designed nano leak from manufacturers of cases, which lend credence to this year's rumor, he said.
