For those of you following closely the development of the HTC Advantage 7510 and waiting for a release date in USA, we have a bad news. This baby contains a Qualcomm chipset which is not available for sale in the US at least for now.

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Sprint announced two new Nextel Direct Connect devices, the Sanyo Pro-200 and Sanyo Pro-700. These phones will take advantage of Sprint’s PTT (Push-To-Talk) service and also support Sprint Mobile Broadband. Both phones support Qualcomm’s QChat technology and feature call alerts (sending a repeating PTT alert to another subscriber), Group Connect (one-to-many capability, allowing you to communicate with up to 20 other Direct Connect subscribers), missed call notification and DC Permissions. The Sprint Mobile Sync online tool allows you to manage contact information, including setting up groups for PTT and text/voice messaging.

The Sanyo PRO-200 (left) is a slim clamshell and features Bluetooth, messaging and mobile email. Priced at US $49.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate and 2-year service agreement. The PRO-700 is a rugged device complying with military standards for dust/shock/vibration. Priced at $69.99 after rebate and a 2-year service agreement.

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I promised you a lot more “first evers” didn’t I? Here’s one more. The first ever mirasol-enabled cell phone. Produced by Hisense, the C108 is a light-weight, ultra-low-power candy bar with a 1.2-inch mirasol display featuring a resolution of 128×96 pixels. It uses Qualcomm’s QSC6010 chipset and has 32MB of ROM and 8MB of memory. The phone will be on display at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona if you want to take a peek.

For the uninitiated, mirasol is a new reflective display technology developed by Qualcomm that “harnesses ambient light and require no backlighting, thereby consuming significantly less power. The reflective mirasol display also automatically scales to the surrounding lighting conditions, allowing users to see their content in almost every environment, even bright sunlight.” Incidentally, the Audiovox ARWH1 Stereo Bluetooth Headset was the first product to actually feature a mirasol display.

Other than that, the phone seems pretty limited and the only major feature seems to be its multi-language support. This one is heading to China and other emerging markets later on in 2008.

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Qualcomm has just announced their new chipsets which could support multiple 4G standards. This makes them the first company to ever have done so. Qualcomm’s three new chipsets could support the Long Term Evolution standard, two of which, the MDM 9800 and the MDM9600, could also support the Ultra-Mobile Broadband (UMB) and EVDO Rev. B standards for CDMA networks. Along with these two is the more basic MDM9200 which could support 3.5G with HSPA+ along with EVDO Rev. A format. According to source, these new chipsets have a max download speed of 50Mbps and a max upload speed of 25Mbps.

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Based on what the company has shown people in CES 2008, it seems Qualcomm is directing their focus towards the “pocketable computer” market. Originally intended to show off their new line of chips called Snapdragon, the company has given a sneak peek of their new ultra-mobile PC. It draws parallels with the Nokia N800 and according to Sanjay Jha of Qualcomm, they prefer calling the device “pocketable computer” because “if you can’t carry it in your pocket, you can’t carry it with you.” The device runs in Windows mobile, features 800-pixel wide screen, Bluetooth, WiFi, slide-out keyboard, GPS and High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA). As of current, the device is still a concept, so there’s no release date or price yet.

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Tags: pocketable computer, Portable Devices, qualcomm