Filed under: Cellphones, CES, GPS, Handhelds, Wireless

Let’s put aside Qualcomm’s legal woes for just a moment and turn our attention to something a little more interesting and heartwarming: awesome-looking prototype devices. The company is showing off a pair of reference designs showcasing its new Snapdragon chipset, a heap of silicon said to offer one of the best potential to performance ratios in

the mobile world. First up, the “Fairbanks” is Qualcomm’s notion of what a next-gen dedicicated GPS unit might look like, rocking a 3 megapixel still / video camera, TV tuner, and microSD expansion on some sort of custom Windows CE base. Next up, the “Anchorage” (pictured) does the typical slide-out QWERTY smartphone concept in pure style with one critical difference — that one is humming along at […]

Orginal post by Chris Ziegler