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Motorola's just-launched Xoom has received a customary teardown that has revealed an unintentional link to the iPhone and just how simple the 4G upgrade process wil be. iFixit found that the Android 3.0 tablet, despite being EVDO-only right now, has the same Qualcomm MDM6600 modem as the Verizon iPhone.

The method suggests the Verizon Xoom is the same model as the one shipping worldwide and that other countries will get 14.4Mbps HSPA+ 3G instead.

Qualcomm, manufacturer of a line of mobile processors known as Snapdragon that makes up the guts of almost every Android phone that ships and is also in 100% of Windows Phone 7 devices, has taken the lid off their future plans.

The MSM8960, the first chip to be a part of this new generation, begins sampling in 2011. It’s going to be a long wait, but once it hits the market, prepare for a whole new level of smartphones.

Nearly five years ago, we predicted that Qualcomm was wasting a ton of money with its MediaFlo effort.

The company had bought up a bunch of spectrum to create a special broadcast TV offering for mobile phones.

It didn't take a genius to predict why that wouldn't make much sense. First of all, using spectrum for straight broadcast video ignores that content is increasingly multi-directional, interactive and on-demand.

Qualcomm at the Mobilize conference this week quietly said that its mirasol display technology wouldn't be ready this year.

Originally promised for 2010, the unique technology now won't ship until early 2011. Mirasol works based on the same principles as the color of a butterfly's wings, which use interference with refracted light to generate certain colors while blocking others.

The technique promises the extreme low power of an e-paper display but with the expected color and much faster update rates.

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Enterprise Mobile Today: "Multi-core is now standard in computing, but mobile phones? Apparently that's the case -- and probably a sign of things to come in the smartphone sector."

Cyber Cynic: "Lenovo might not describe their return to the Linux desktop like that, but that's what they're doing.

Yesterday, November 12th, Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs gave the world a sneak peak at the Lenovo ARM Snapdragon-powered smartbook..."

TechWorld: "Qualcomm has built a new subsidiary to better integrate its products with mobile open-source software, in hopes of capitalizing on the trend toward open platforms in the mobile industry."

The VAR Guy: "Now that everybody has jumped on the Netbook bandwagon, a new mobile device parade is pulling into town.

Led by Qualcomm, so-called Smartbooks are slated to debut in late 2009."

APC magazine: "Freescale and Qualcomm have coined the term smartbook to describe Linux+ARM systems, ditching Atom+Windows for good."