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Analyst Corner
Wi-Fi–enabled Consumer Electronics Devices Turning De Rigueur
A new category of devices is soon emerging, which is a combination of daily consumer electronics and mobile broadband.
Consumer electronics will increase with Wi-Fi connectivity within the home and to the Internet; Wi-Fi–enabled portable consumer electronics devices are a bridge to the mobile consumer electronics devices. Service providers will offer services to these devices along with handsets and laptops. South Korea’s SK Telecom is doing this today for Samsung’s HSDPA-enabled camera, and American mobile operators Sprint Nextel and Clearwire will also promote connectivity for a wide range of WiMAX-enabled consumer electronics devices.
Phil Solis, principal analyst, ABI Research, said, “The market for cellular-enabled consumer electronics devices will gather momentum in 2008 and 2009 with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon platform. As mobile WiMAX networks increase their coverage, more WiMAX-only devices will be sold. And between WiMAX network deployments and devices using Qualcomm’s Snapdragon platform or Freescale’s MXC platform, the 2008-to-2009 time period will be critical for the development of this market.”
Solis continued, “Qualcomm’s Snapdragon platform should reduce dramatically the cost of including cellular connectivity in consumer electronics devices by bundling wide-area connectivity with short-range wireless technologies and a multimedia processor. Even so, this market is dealing with consumer electronics manufacturers who feel that even the integration of Wi-Fi is nearly cost-prohibitive.”
“The benefits outweigh the additional costs, but the challenge for vendors is to sell consumers on those benefits.”
Snapdragon platform’s processing power and connectivity functionality (WPAN, WLAN, WWAN) ideal for a mobile consumer electronics device would make it an attractive package for consumer electronics manufacturers. Reference designs are expected towards the end of 2007, and Snapdragon platform products would be available by 2008. Brazil, Mexico, and Venezuela lead the market for mobile consumer electronics within Latin America, but still lag the market in comparison with the Asia-Pacific and North American regions.
ABI Research anticipates that Qualcomm would make crucial announcements regarding its Snapdragon platform at the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show when many WiMAX-enabled consumer electronic devices would also be launched.
ABI Research’s recent study, “Mobile Broadband-Enabled Consumer Electronics”, researches the market trend for mobile broadband-enabled consumer electronics from 2007 to 2012. It examines the strengths and weaknesses of each air-interface, and signals, which will dominate at the beginning and end of the period. It forms part of the Mobile Broadband Research Service.
Consumer electronics will increase with Wi-Fi connectivity within the home and to the Internet; Wi-Fi–enabled portable consumer electronics devices are a bridge to the mobile consumer electronics devices. Service providers will offer services to these devices along with handsets and laptops. South Korea’s SK Telecom is doing this today for Samsung’s HSDPA-enabled camera, and American mobile operators Sprint Nextel and Clearwire will also promote connectivity for a wide range of WiMAX-enabled consumer electronics devices.
Phil Solis, principal analyst, ABI Research, said, “The market for cellular-enabled consumer electronics devices will gather momentum in 2008 and 2009 with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon platform. As mobile WiMAX networks increase their coverage, more WiMAX-only devices will be sold. And between WiMAX network deployments and devices using Qualcomm’s Snapdragon platform or Freescale’s MXC platform, the 2008-to-2009 time period will be critical for the development of this market.”
Solis continued, “Qualcomm’s Snapdragon platform should reduce dramatically the cost of including cellular connectivity in consumer electronics devices by bundling wide-area connectivity with short-range wireless technologies and a multimedia processor. Even so, this market is dealing with consumer electronics manufacturers who feel that even the integration of Wi-Fi is nearly cost-prohibitive.”
“The benefits outweigh the additional costs, but the challenge for vendors is to sell consumers on those benefits.”
Snapdragon platform’s processing power and connectivity functionality (WPAN, WLAN, WWAN) ideal for a mobile consumer electronics device would make it an attractive package for consumer electronics manufacturers. Reference designs are expected towards the end of 2007, and Snapdragon platform products would be available by 2008. Brazil, Mexico, and Venezuela lead the market for mobile consumer electronics within Latin America, but still lag the market in comparison with the Asia-Pacific and North American regions.
ABI Research anticipates that Qualcomm would make crucial announcements regarding its Snapdragon platform at the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show when many WiMAX-enabled consumer electronic devices would also be launched.
ABI Research’s recent study, “Mobile Broadband-Enabled Consumer Electronics”, researches the market trend for mobile broadband-enabled consumer electronics from 2007 to 2012. It examines the strengths and weaknesses of each air-interface, and signals, which will dominate at the beginning and end of the period. It forms part of the Mobile Broadband Research Service.
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