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Briefing Center

Welcome to the Digital Briefing Center. We are excited to provide this resource as an innovative gateway to Qualcomm’s emerging products and technologies. Each of the initiatives below contains a wealth of information designed to meet the research needs of industry analysts. This information is delivered across a variety of formats including webcasts, podcasts, case studies, video demonstrations, whitepapers and briefs, and relevant third party resources such as media articles.

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Mobile Computing

Today's computing devices are being built from the ground up around mobile hardware and software… combined with always on connectivity and location awareness, resulting in a new device categories with all-day battery life, sleek form factors and always-evolving experiences that transform our lives.

Qualcomm Reference Design

In today’s dynamic, highly competitive high-volume smartphone segment, speeding time to market is a critical concern for device manufacturers. Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. has dramatically shortened that cycle to an average of 60 days or less with its Qualcomm Reference Design program.

Indoor Location

Qualcomm has built an end-to-end platform called IZat, which delivers ubiquitous, always-on location through precise mobile- and network-based indoor positioning.

Adreno Graphics for Snapdragon

Adreno GPUs are custom-built by Qualcomm and exclusively integrated within Snapdragon processors. They provide the level computational processing power needed for the high-end 3D gaming, complex UIs, super-responsive web browsing and rich navigation experiences that today’s savvy mobile users demand.

HD Voice

HD Voice is a major part of operators’ initiatives while transitioning from 2G/3G to 4G LTE networks. HD Voice has been the focal point in Sprint's Network Vision network upgrade and the first device to support it is the HTC Evo 4G LTE. Qualcomm’s HD Voice technology provides a superior voice call experience to the end-users while fulfilling the operators’ constrained network requirements.

Snapdragon for Compute

Today’s consumers want sleek, modern mobile computing devices that help them stay in constant touch to all their friends, fellow workers, apps and content. Therefore, things that people normally expect in a cellphone are moving now into mobile computing devices.

Vellamo

Vellamo is designed to be an accurate, easy-to-use suite of system-level benchmarks for devices based on Android 2.3 forward. It began as a mobile web benchmarking tool that today has expanded to include two primary chapters: The HTML5 Chapter evaluates mobile web browser performance and the Metal Chapter measures the CPU subsystem performance of mobile processors.

Digital 6th Sense

The smartphone has already become the center of our smart, connected lives. It is allowing people to connect to everything around them naturally and effortlessly, blurring the lines between the digital and physical worlds.

Qualcomm Life’s 2net Solution

Qualcomm Life is defining and connecting the wireless health network to improve lives and advance the capabilities of medical devices.

Gestures

Gestures are a powerful means of communication among humans and are deeply rooted in our communication and the way we interact with the devices around us. For instance, people often continue gesturing when speaking on the telephone, which is a natural interaction between humans and computing devices.

Tagg—The Pet Tracker

Tagg—The Pet Tracker is a GPS tracking device that uses advanced GPS and cellular technology to provide insight into pets’ day-to-day activities and whereabouts.

The 1000x Data Challenge

Expanding network and connectivity capabilities is essential to allow people to stay connected and interact with huge amounts of information as they want and need... seamlessly, quickly, everywhere.

The 1000x challenge

Mobile data traffic is exploding. Some of our partners are expecting an astounding 1000x growth between 2010 and 2020*! Is it possible to support this growth? What is needed? How to get there?

Visit the 1000x Challenge page

Voice Evolution

During the industry’s long-term move toward richer packet switched voice (VoIP/VoLTE), what is the role of today’s proven circuit-switched voice? Where is it headed in the future?
Visit the Voice Evolution page