Agere Systems unveiled a new mobile handset chipset meant to enable phone manufacturers to address the growing demand for wireless phones with multimedia functions like real-time audio and video streaming, digital photo imaging, and interactive gaming. The company says its new “Vision” mobile handset architecture combines an advanced digital baseband chipset, proven software, and state-of-the-art tools. The chipset targets devices running Linux and other embedded operating systems, and provides a low-power, highly integrated framework for a broad range of multimedia mobile devices implementing communcation standards such as 2.5G/GPRS, EDGE, 3G/WCDMA, and beyond.

Find out more about the chipset at DeviceForge.com.

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