Present-gen OMAP3 series in the Palm Pre
TI today unveiled a mobile-phone platform at the Mobile World Congress, capable of recording 1080p video, shooting 20-megapixel images, and playing MP3s for a week on one battery charge. The OMAP 4 platform is the first to use ARM’s multi-core Cortex-A9 processor, which can offer up to seven times the computing performance of today’s top smartphones, according to TI.
The OMAP4430 and 4440 chipsets will include the following processor cores: a dual-core Cortex-A9 main processor running at 1 GHz or higher, a DSP, and a dedicated graphics chip. The chipsets will support WUXGA screens—that’s 1920 by 1200 resolution, the ideal standard resolution for watching 1080p video. And they’ll record 4 hours of video on a single charge…
The OMAP 4 chipset will support Windows Mobile, Symbian, and all Linux-based OSs, including Android and Palm’s WebOS, Tolbert said. For an OS to take advantage of the OMAP 4’s power, it will need to support symmetric multiprocessing…
“The OMAP 4 platform lends itself well to a variety of equipment from smartphones to MIDs to netbooks,” Product Marketing Manager Robert Tolbert said.
OMAP 4 chipsets will go into production in the second half of 2010, so you should see phones based on these chips sometime in 2011. (The Palm Pre 3, perhaps?)
TI always raises itself from the ashes of whichever marketplace it chooses. Stellar R&D.
20Mpixels is totally insane and caters to the uninformed. Not only a huge waste of storage but more importantly crummy images due to noise.
Combine that with the probable plastic lens. At best, ‘good’ images at ISO 50 on a tripod and super bright lighting conditions. Most camera phone images are taken in poor lighting conditions.
Golly gee, #1 – so, you’ve already seen this chipset used in all the potential platforms? We are fortunate indeed to have someone around with an all-encompassing crystal ball.
#2 Well, gee “god”… It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see that squeezing 20M pixels into cellphone size camera sensor is a trade off in noise.
Megapixels isn’t very relevant unless you have good optics to go with it.
High resolution video from phones will be especially helpful when recording the commission of crimes, including those committed by the police. Whenever I’m watching the latest police beating, I always find myself wishing the picture were a little clearer.
The claims is “capable” of doing these functions. That does not mean they’re going to be implemented. Surely, having a 20megapixel camera and 1080P recording on a cell phone device is not ideal.
Instead, one should realize that at least the potential power to be able to do this functions are there. That power could be use for other functions other than camera and video.
The computer Megahertz race is dead.
The digital zoom race is dead.
Die, mega pixel race, die.
When are the masses going to wake up to the fact the only thing more mega pixels does is give larger photos, not better.
Did you know the amazing images we get from the mars rovers are a 1 mega pixel camera? Yes a one mega pixel camera, I did not leave off a couple of zeros. It had multi-million dollar optics in front of the sensor.
Now I wonder which you would rather? A piece of warped shitty plastic in front of a 200 Giga pixel sensor or a decent lens in front of a smaller sensor?
How much storage will we have on phones by 2011? 256GB? That should be enough to store hours 1080p video. Of course without the proper optics it will be hours of shitty video.
without the proper optics it will be hours of shitty video.
Like that really makes a difference in the quality of video. Oh wait…pron…Hmmm.
Finally I will be able to enjoy full-HD playback on a 2″ screen.
#8, it’s the playback for the HD video. I don’t think optics has anything to do with it but your point is well taken. Having 1080P video on a 2″ screen is pointless due to the small size and resolution of the screen itself. Why would anyone, in their right mind, want to do a full 1080P video only to play on a highly unsuitable screen?
And that goes for the camera as well. Put a 2peta-pixel camera in there and take a large photo with lots of noise or put the right optic hardware with the proper resolution to get a good quality photo. I mean, does anyone really want a 20mega/peta/zeta-pixel crappy photo?
No, the point of the announcement and claims, as I’ve said, earlier is too boost the technological features it will have. Being able to handle HD video is fantastic. That means it shouldn’t have any problems processing video of less quality. Same for the camera specs.
1) The point of more megapixels is to crop and still retain quality in what remains.
2) The lens is the problem.
3) Who says you must watch on the phone? It all makes sense if you download to your PC and go from there.
4) More megapixels causing noise – on any size screen? Nonsense. Noise is mainly caused by high ISO settings, not enough light, and digital zooming.
I think some flip camera’s can record 1080p. That would make the phone that good. You can get flash drives that are 128 gig. You can get 64 gig for about 60 dollars or less. Sending a recording like that out over your data plan sounds slow and costly.
It might be best to wait until it ships then see what it will really do.
Sounds like this chip set could power a capable notebook computer that runs contemporary software *without a fan*. Finally we might have something on a par with 1994 technology: the Thinkpad 701C (butterfly).
20 Mega pixeles can be used in many ways, digital zoom and image stabelization to name a few. My phones got Carl Zeiss lens and 5 MP and I love it. Plastic lenses aren’t likely to be used and noise is the product of poor engineering. The high tech stuff goes into top of the line models, not some grungy disposible.
I say gimme some more.
20 megapixel ought to make a lot less fuzzy snaps of undergarments. Will these “phones” be equipped with the extra loud fake camera squeak sound, whenever it takes a shot? Here’s an idea. Who ever shoots the sky, with their phones, besides the rare UFO seeker. Add a level switch to the phone, so it can’t snap pictures pointing upward. Can this be defeated? Sure! But so can the speaker, by the perverts planning to use their phone for this purpose. But seriously. A 20 megapixel camera phone? Why?! To overcome the lack of zoom. Obviously to cater to the perverts’ needs.