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BUMPY ROAD AHEAD OF SAMSUNG'S CDMA CHIP INITIATIVE.
AsiaPulse News, October, 2003
SEOUL, Oct 7 Asia Pulse - Samsung Electronics Co. (KSE:005930) is facing an uphill battle in commercializing its less-publicized cell phone that contains its own CDMA2000 1X chips.
Last May, the world's third-largest handset manufacturer quietly released the new SPH-X9000 phone, pinning its hopes of reducing its heavy reliance on chipsets made by U.S. wireless firm Qualcomm Inc.
Since early 2000, Samsung Electronics has developed its own chipsets for the 1X network, which offers an early glimpse of third-generation (3G) features such as video-on-demand and picture-messaging services.
So far, things do not seem to be going well. As of end of September, a total of 80,000 SPH-X9000 phones were shipped to local consumers, but minuscule 4,800 handsets...
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