Qualcomm's Snapdragon Mobile Development Platform with 1GHz MSM8655 Chipset showcased

Qualcomm has been showcasing its Snapdragon Mobile Development Platform (MDP), designed to help content developers and publishers maximize the performance of applications on Snapdragon chipsets, at the Company's second annual Innovation Qualcomm event. The first Snapdragon MDP is based on the 1GHz MSM8655 chipset and features:

+ Sleek smartphone form-factor
+ Support for either Android or Brew Mobile Platform
+ 3.8-inch WVGA multi-touch capacitive touch screen display
+ Adreno 205 graphics processing unit (GPU)
+ Dual cameras including 12-megapixel main camera
+ Embedded accelerometer and gyroscope
+ 16mm stereo loudspeakers and 512 MB of RAM

BSQUARE Corporation will be selling, distributing and supporting the MSM8655-based Snapdragon MDP, which is currently available for pre-order at www.bsquare.com/qualcomm. A second-generation Snapdragon MDP based on the dual-core MSM8660 chipset will be available in the first half of 2011.