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Rumors are swirling around the World IT show in Seoul that Samsung will finally present a MID at the show based on the ‘do everything" SnapDragon platform that was announced at this years CES. Of course, vapor swirls too.

“Rumors”, you may ask (go ahead, I’ll wait), “What rumors?” Well according to AVING, Samsung has definitively stated that they will be producing a SnapDragon MID “Sooner or later”. Qualcomm has then said in turn that there will be at least fifteen SnapDragon devices released in 2008, AND that Samsung definitely WILL produce a SnapDragon MID in June. As June is rapidly a’wasteing, it seems that many people in Seoul are speculating now would be a good time to let the cat out of the bag…assuming that there actually IS a cat, and that it is in a bag…if the bag actually exists. Do I sound skeptical? Remember this is the same platform that Qualcomm exhibited concept devices for at CES for a whole day before admitting that the platform used for the examples actually WASN’T SnapDragon, but a close friend of SnapDragon.

If a SnapDragon MID does appear soon, it should be quite impressive based on the technologies the platform supports, including the following:

• Universal Modem supporting all 2G and 3G mobile broadband standards (CDMA2000 1xEV-DO, Revisions B, A and 0; HSPA, WCDMA, GSM / GPRS / EDGE)
• High definition video decode (720P)
• 3D graphics with up to 22M triangles/sec and 133M 3D pixels/sec
• High resolution XGA display support
• 12-megapixel camera
• Support for multiple video codecs
• Audio codecs: (AAC+, eAAC+, AMR, FR, EFR, HR, WB-AMR, G.729a, G.711 , AAC stereo encode)
• Support for Broadcast TV (MediaFLOTM , DVB-H and ISDB-T)

No word yet on possible OS, if it will warm your Hennessy for you or keep bullies from taking your lunch money.

Color me dubious.