Qualcomm has secured a place as one of the major chip vendors in the current smartphone market, and it turns out that the company knew where industry was heading. In an interview with Charlie Rose, CEO Paul E. Jacobs let slip that Qualcomm once tried to sell Apple on the idea of putting a radio in one of its Newton products. The company’s idea was rejected, causing Jacobs to pitch Palm on the idea of powering a Qualcomm smartphone with Palm's operating system. That idea ultimately came to fruition in the form of the Qualcomm PDQ, a phone that married PalmOS functionality with cellular connectivity.
It’s a handset that draws a comparison to modern smartphones, but it’s not hard to see why Apple passed on the opportunity for a...
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