TCL Corporation Partners with NeoMagic And M-Systems on new Smartphone

[Mike Temporale]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=SVBIZINK3.story&STORY=/www/story/03-03-2004/0002121211&EDATE=WED+Mar+03+2004,+08:06+AM' target='_blank'>http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=SVBIZINK3.story&STORY=/www/story/03-03-2004/0002121211&EDATE=WED+Mar+03+2004,+08:06+AM</a><br /><br /></div>"NeoMagic Corporation (Nasdaq: NMGC), a pioneer in Applications Processors for multimedia-rich mobile phones, wireless personal digital assistants (PDAs), and other mobile handheld systems and M-Systems (Nasdaq: FLSH) today announced that TCL Corporation (China ShenzhenSE: 00100) is using NeoMagic's MiMagic Applications Processors with M-Systems' Mobile DiskOnChip to power its Windows Mobile-based Smartphones. <i>TCL will begin shipping its first Smartphone, called the OC01, in the early summer.</i> The MiMagic 5 enables the OC01 to provide sophisticated multimedia functionality, such as video, still pictures and games, at low power. As the world's smallest high-capacity on-board memory, Mobile DiskOnChip provides the OC01 with high performance NAND flash storage capacity for multimedia content."

[possmann]

bit of a rant following below - sorry....

Now wouldn't be great to buy this phone directly from the vendor as soon as they ship it/make it availble? Why are we, the consumers, forced to wiat months before the carriers put it through their paces, customize the pee out of it and tweak (limit) features on it?

Allow me, the end user, to select the phone I want and the carrier I want -separately! It will be my responisblity to insure that I buy a phone (hardware) that meets the carrier requirements - signal type.

But no... We'll have to wait months and the phone that they will be ready to ship in the early summer will mean that it will probably be Q1 of 05 before we the consumers see the dang phone on the market...


On topic:

Good that hardware vendors are stepping up to the plate and using the smartphone OS - proving that it can strength the model (rant) that I think MS would like to see (above).