Qualcomm Collaborates with Samsusung on BeiDou-Enhanced Smartphones

Qualcomm QCOM today announced that its subsidiary, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., is enhancing location precision in smartphones and tablets initially in China with support for China's BeiDou Satellite Navigation System. Supporting the BeiDou constellation within Qualcomm® IZat™ location solutions increases the number of satellites that Qualcomm-based devices can access to provide greater position location accuracy. Qualcomm is collaborating with Samsung SSNLF to launch the first wave of BeiDou enhanced consumer smartphones, demonstrating the commitment of the companies to provide technology that delivers optimum performance for location-based services within China and globally. Powered by the Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 800 processor (MSM8974), the Samsung GALAXY Note® 3 (WCDMA 3G version SM-N9006 & TD-LTE 4G version SM-N9008V) uses the industry's first, integrated tri-band location platform to provide more accurate and responsive location data to mobile users. It does so by concurrently processing signals from multiple satellite networks. Armed with this capability, users will have more enjoyable experiences using their location-based services, even in the most challenging of environments. Leveraging Qualcomm IZat location solutions, Samsung will be able to deliver an See full press release