The Future of mobile computing ;)
As you might have already known, the smartphone revolution is now spearheaded by mainly Nokia,apple,Android and Windows being the forerunners... As all these companies have their own way of expressing themselves by means of their operating systems they use.. but all of them have one thing in common in their handsets.. a similar hardware..
now i am going to provide an insight into mobile computing in the hardware perspective :)
Current generation:
Current generation hit phones like the apple iphone 3gs, the palm pre and the nokia n900 have very similar hardware.. they all run on ARM based processors which are the market leaders for their low power consuming high power processors called cortex... and they all incorporate a gpu from imagination technologies' power vr SGX gpu which has open gl es 2.0 support... their RAM count is 256 MB and all the phones sport a decent enough radio capabilities like 3g,wifi,gps...etc
But the android powered phones are slightly different, the major android phones from any manufacturer (HTC,samsung,sony ericsson,now google... etc) sport a qualcomm-toshiba snapodragon processor with a processing power of a whopping 1 ghz..(they are ARM based but they ve their Own Architecture(not arm))
Usually, all the manufacturers opt for a SoC(System on a chip)
The Soc combines all the integral parts of a system on a single chip...
The processor(usually ARM cortex A8 or A9(latest)),the radio chips(gps,wifi,3g) and the GPU,image processors and video decoders.. all will be on a single chip..
These SoCs are manufactured by several manufacturers , the prominent ones being Texas instruments, samsung and Apple(they manufacture only for themselves)
Ti is the leader in SoCs for ARM powered ones while samsung still plays the role of an underdog by releasing both ARM powered chips as well as Snapdragon powered Chips...
NEXT Gen:
Seasoned veterans :
The future lies with ARM as far as power and versatility is concerned.. they provide multicore processors now with their cortex A9 iteration of processors...Now they ve managed to reach upto 2GHZ frequency with dual core arm cortex A9 :)(but not yet released for any SoCs)
As far as the SoCs are concerned , TIs new SoC in their famed OMAP league is the OMAP4
It supports dual ARM cortex A9,upto 18 MP sensors for image processing,Power vr SGX for open gl 2.0 support,.....what not :)
Whereas in the android arena, the battle for power heated up when Samsung released its own SoC possesing a processing power of 1.5 ghz :O under the hood was the mighty successor of an enhanced snapdragon processor....
New ENTRANTS:
Now this is the best thing to happen for smartphones, intel entered the smartphone market with its Moorestown range of processors.. the moorestown processor is the toned down version of ATOM and is supposed to consume upto 50 times less power than ATOM...
It, sadly runs on the x86 architecture only but recently, INTEL and NOKIA jointly announced that they would merge MAEMO(n900 os running on ARM architecture) and MOBLIN(intels own linux, based on x86) and Called it ,(the horribly named)MEEGO..
One other New entrant in the smartphone arena is the world leader in Graphics NVIDIA,
They have released the next iteration its famous TEGRA SoC, the TEGRA2
The tegra 2 sports a dual ARM cortex based processor and they have their own graphics processing unit in their SoC.. other details are in the links..
So... decide for yourselves which is best... depends on taste.. i vote for ARM based SoCs...
But one thing for sure... The consumers are the winners if the competition widens :)
Few links:
ARM CORTEX : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_Cortex-A9_MPCore
SNAPDRAGON : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapdragon_%28processor%29
SoCs:
OMAP4: http://focus.ti.com/general/docs/wtbu/wtbuproductcontent.tsp?templateId=6123&navigationId=12842&contentId=53247
TEGRA 2: http://www.nvidia.com/object/tegra_250.html
MOORESTOWN : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moorestown_%28CPU%29
SAMSUNG : http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/products/mobilesoc/Products_ApplicationProcessor.html
now i am going to provide an insight into mobile computing in the hardware perspective :)
Current generation:
Current generation hit phones like the apple iphone 3gs, the palm pre and the nokia n900 have very similar hardware.. they all run on ARM based processors which are the market leaders for their low power consuming high power processors called cortex... and they all incorporate a gpu from imagination technologies' power vr SGX gpu which has open gl es 2.0 support... their RAM count is 256 MB and all the phones sport a decent enough radio capabilities like 3g,wifi,gps...etc
But the android powered phones are slightly different, the major android phones from any manufacturer (HTC,samsung,sony ericsson,now google... etc) sport a qualcomm-toshiba snapodragon processor with a processing power of a whopping 1 ghz..(they are ARM based but they ve their Own Architecture(not arm))
Usually, all the manufacturers opt for a SoC(System on a chip)
The Soc combines all the integral parts of a system on a single chip...
The processor(usually ARM cortex A8 or A9(latest)),the radio chips(gps,wifi,3g) and the GPU,image processors and video decoders.. all will be on a single chip..
These SoCs are manufactured by several manufacturers , the prominent ones being Texas instruments, samsung and Apple(they manufacture only for themselves)
Ti is the leader in SoCs for ARM powered ones while samsung still plays the role of an underdog by releasing both ARM powered chips as well as Snapdragon powered Chips...
NEXT Gen:
Seasoned veterans :
The future lies with ARM as far as power and versatility is concerned.. they provide multicore processors now with their cortex A9 iteration of processors...Now they ve managed to reach upto 2GHZ frequency with dual core arm cortex A9 :)(but not yet released for any SoCs)
As far as the SoCs are concerned , TIs new SoC in their famed OMAP league is the OMAP4
It supports dual ARM cortex A9,upto 18 MP sensors for image processing,Power vr SGX for open gl 2.0 support,.....what not :)
Whereas in the android arena, the battle for power heated up when Samsung released its own SoC possesing a processing power of 1.5 ghz :O under the hood was the mighty successor of an enhanced snapdragon processor....
New ENTRANTS:
Now this is the best thing to happen for smartphones, intel entered the smartphone market with its Moorestown range of processors.. the moorestown processor is the toned down version of ATOM and is supposed to consume upto 50 times less power than ATOM...
It, sadly runs on the x86 architecture only but recently, INTEL and NOKIA jointly announced that they would merge MAEMO(n900 os running on ARM architecture) and MOBLIN(intels own linux, based on x86) and Called it ,(the horribly named)MEEGO..
One other New entrant in the smartphone arena is the world leader in Graphics NVIDIA,
They have released the next iteration its famous TEGRA SoC, the TEGRA2
The tegra 2 sports a dual ARM cortex based processor and they have their own graphics processing unit in their SoC.. other details are in the links..
So... decide for yourselves which is best... depends on taste.. i vote for ARM based SoCs...
But one thing for sure... The consumers are the winners if the competition widens :)
Few links:
ARM CORTEX : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_Cortex-A9_MPCore
SNAPDRAGON : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapdragon_%28processor%29
SoCs:
OMAP4: http://focus.ti.com/general/docs/wtbu/wtbuproductcontent.tsp?templateId=6123&navigationId=12842&contentId=53247
TEGRA 2: http://www.nvidia.com/object/tegra_250.html
MOORESTOWN : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moorestown_%28CPU%29
SAMSUNG : http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/products/mobilesoc/Products_ApplicationProcessor.html
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