Mobile Phones

With Qualcomm Atheros Wi-Fi®, Bluetooth®, FM and location solutions for mobile phones, broad capabilities are in the palm of the consumer’s hand. Our best-in-class connectivity and location technologies extend Qualcomm's mobile leadership by enabling consumers to do more with their mobile devices. Our Connectivity solutions enable fully connected experiences on Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ platforms.

Qualcomm Atheros Mobile WLAN

Qualcomm Atheros has helped remove the barriers to adding Wi-Fi to mobile phones, turning what was once optional into what is now mandatory. With low current consumption, up to 300 Mbps of actual throughput, significant BOM integration and an extremely small size, Qualcomm Atheros solutions enable compact, high-performance mobile phones to deliver rich media content over Wi-Fi with ’near zero’ power consumption, minimally impacting the phone’s battery life.

Qualcomm Atheros Bluetooth

Qualcomm Atheros Bluetooth technology provides simple connectivity to millions of mobile devices, providing a rich user experience for both voice and data applications. With support for the Bluetooth 4.0, ANT+, 3.0 High Speed and 2.0 + Enhanced Data Rate (EDR) standards , Bluetooth solutions from Qualcomm Atheros provide the bandwidth of Wi-Fi with the ease of Bluetooth pairing for mobile phones, enabling support for more robust, high-bandwidth applications and longer battery charges. Qualcomm Atheros’ FM portfolio provides worldwide FM functionality for mobile phones and consumer electronics and supports both receive and transmit functions for embedded antennas and for wired headsets.

Qualcomm® IZat™ Location Technology

IZat location solutions provide always-on positioning capabilities with unmatched accuracy and minimal impact on battery life. IZat GNSS chipsets are integrated into Qualcomm’s MSM, MDM and APQ platforms, and also sold as discrete SoCs to support a wide variety of device architectures. Qualcomm's end-to-end location platform augments satellite-based measurements with cellular, Wi-Fi and sensor positioning techniques, and leverages an array of cloud-based assistance servers to provide a superior location experience