Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs confirmed to the Helsingin Sanomat that they are working with Nokia to have a Snapdragon processor running with Symbian by the end of this year (reports Stefan at IntoMobile). Snapdragon is of course the processor inside the Google Nexus 1, and provides built in GPS, BlueTooth, WiFi cellular radio chipsets.

The handset would arrive roughly two years since Nokia and Qualcomm announced they were working together after numerous rounds of litigation. It’s not a huge jump from the current processors, as Snapdragon is based around ARM, but putting more functions on less chips is a boon to production and build costs. We’d expect to see Nokia run with at least a 1GHz chip, although a newer 1.3GHz product is expected by the end of 2010, so perhaps Nokia will go straight to that?