Mobile phone chip maker Qualcomm announced the initiative to strengthen partnership with Samsung Electronics, a customer and rival, heralding the era of the so-called coopetition, which refers to a business cooperating with its competitor.

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“As the next step to EV-DO in the course of network evolution, Rev.A is always open to our option,” said an SK Telecom staff on Wednesday. He also added to say, “ Yet, the decision will come out after all variables are considered, such as balancing with HSDPA, which is the investment focus of next year, possibility of overlapping investment, etc.

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'Future phones will be loaded with nano and bio technologies.”

Lee, Ki-Tae, President of Samsung’s Telecommunications Network, in an interview with Financial Time on Wednesday, expressed the vision of the Samsung mobile phone as “Samsung wants a big world in its hands.”

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