Isn't it obvious? It's so they don't have to get screwed by Qualcomm by paying licensing royalties to technology owned by this and other evil foreign countries with possible eavesdropping backdoors.
Also, they can come up with their video drivers instead of being held hostage by companies like HTC/Qualcomm.
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NuShrike @ Apr 18th 2008 11:40PM
Isn't it obvious? It's so they don't have to get screwed by Qualcomm by paying licensing royalties to technology owned by this and other evil foreign countries with possible eavesdropping backdoors.
Also, they can come up with their video drivers instead of being held hostage by companies like HTC/Qualcomm.
Adam Ko @ May 25th 2008 8:21AM
It's true. For those painful losses in 2G era they are now working really hard to change this.
BTW HTC is from China.