(1) http://www.intomobile.com/2009/02/03/toshiba-tg01-announced-with-iphone-trumping-snapdragon-chipset.html
1GHz processor powering a mobile(or not so) phone. Specs: The Toshiba TG01’s Snapdragon chipset, with a dual-core processor that crams a 1Ghz ARM core next to a 600Mhz DSP core. Cost is yet to be determined and power drain is not yet ascertained. Ball park estimate says that it can stay alive for a day of use.
(2) http://www.intomobile.com/2008/06/03/nvidia-announces-tegra-650-mobile-processor-nvidia-tegra-mobile-platform-is-here.html
nVidia's take on AP. With dedicated processor for each of the media type, it is indeed a powerful processor. Specs: The nVidia Tegra 650 follows the Tegra mobile platform’s mantra of integrating ARM CPU, a HD video processor, an imaging processor, an audio processor, and an ultra-low power GeForce® GPU in to a mobile chip.
(3) http://www.intomobile.com/2007/10/03/apple-looking-towards-intel-chips-for-next-gen-iphone-intel-inside-iphone-20.html Intel's take on AP (particularly for MID). Being x-86 based architecture it is very difficult to meet the power benefits compared to RISC based ARM processor. But the specs are not yet out on power-performance numbers and it will be interesting to see how they shape up.
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Monday, January 26, 2009
Palm Pre – The next (or better) iPhone
First thing first: Palm Pre is declared as the CES-2009 show stopper. Is this smart phone going to live up to the hype? Definitely should be my answer. I bet my money on the Palm Pre. Please refer to the following sites: Cnet review: http://ces.cnet.com/8301-19167_1-10137746-100.html and http://palmpre.org/ for more take/specs in the product.
In continuation of my preview blog on APs : http://karthkl.blogspot.com/2008/12/why-texas-instruments-ti-omap-open.html, TI once again proved that how far ahead they are in the club of AP competitors. With TI’s OMAP 3430-the brain behind the Palm’s Pre, taking all the responsibility of delivering the performance it has promised, it is indeed a most promising AP chip from TI’s stable for 2009. With TI’s OMAP 3430 based platform solution, what Palm done is to build innovation on top of that and build a software app solution which can fully use the potential of OMAP 3430.
Web OS, the OS running the Palm Pre, is indeed going to shape the mobile computing and would help pave the way of cloud computing and so. The ease and fast at which the UI performs stands testimony to the power of OMAP and in comparison to HTC Touch Diamond (with Touch Flo interface) is way ahead of the lot. Though HTC Touch Diamond’s Touch Flo is very good user interface (UI), but what a bad selection of AP will do to the innovation is clearly seen. What HTC Touch Diamond got in the end is very good innovative UI running on a bad AP, making the whole system sluggish like a lame horse running in the race track. Hope HTC gives a thought or too on the right selection of AP for their innovative design.
Adding a signing note, I really like the way the Google Apps are customized for iPhone while not so for Microsoft Mobile OS. It looks like in corporate world “enemy of my enemy is my friend”. Google if it really promises to release free apps, should ensure that they maintain their equality and not be partial to one OS v another. Anyways, lets see with the advent of Android what Google does with iPhone MAC OS X with regards to the Mobile Apps.
In continuation of my preview blog on APs : http://karthkl.blogspot.com/2008/12/why-texas-instruments-ti-omap-open.html, TI once again proved that how far ahead they are in the club of AP competitors. With TI’s OMAP 3430-the brain behind the Palm’s Pre, taking all the responsibility of delivering the performance it has promised, it is indeed a most promising AP chip from TI’s stable for 2009. With TI’s OMAP 3430 based platform solution, what Palm done is to build innovation on top of that and build a software app solution which can fully use the potential of OMAP 3430.
Web OS, the OS running the Palm Pre, is indeed going to shape the mobile computing and would help pave the way of cloud computing and so. The ease and fast at which the UI performs stands testimony to the power of OMAP and in comparison to HTC Touch Diamond (with Touch Flo interface) is way ahead of the lot. Though HTC Touch Diamond’s Touch Flo is very good user interface (UI), but what a bad selection of AP will do to the innovation is clearly seen. What HTC Touch Diamond got in the end is very good innovative UI running on a bad AP, making the whole system sluggish like a lame horse running in the race track. Hope HTC gives a thought or too on the right selection of AP for their innovative design.
Adding a signing note, I really like the way the Google Apps are customized for iPhone while not so for Microsoft Mobile OS. It looks like in corporate world “enemy of my enemy is my friend”. Google if it really promises to release free apps, should ensure that they maintain their equality and not be partial to one OS v another. Anyways, lets see with the advent of Android what Google does with iPhone MAC OS X with regards to the Mobile Apps.
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