If you want to get HD in your handheld, NVIDIA's
Tegra processor is the hot way to do it at the moment, and we've got reasonably concrete sounding rumors from disparate sources that a handset containing one of the chips is currently under development by a "top five" smartphone builder (we're guessing it's not Apple), and that it'll be out sometime before the end of the year, selling at T-Mobile and AT&T for just $199. The details of the device beyond that are scant, with Android being a possibility but Windows Mobile looking more likely, and a
continued pledge of battery life of rated for "days and days" of mobile multimedia. We like the sound of that.
Read - NVIDIA Tegra phone due from "big five" firm
Read - Rumor: NVIDIA Tegra phones in Q409?
posted Jun 30th 2009 at 6:56AM
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
loocas @ Jun 30th 2009 7:02AM
YES!
DaSpider @ Jun 30th 2009 7:28AM
Second that.
DR House @ Jun 30th 2009 10:28AM
thirded (is that even a word?)
Tegra phones is the future
Duke @ Jun 30th 2009 3:31PM
If this is true I will dump the iPhone for it this year for sure. The Tegra appears to be the Motts!
Ethos @ Jun 30th 2009 7:07AM
With the robust OS that is WinMob6.5(want WM7) with amazing speed of Tegra.
Sounds friggen awesome to me!
shapey @ Jun 30th 2009 9:31AM
windows mobile is the past - android is the future!
Alan Strangis @ Jun 30th 2009 9:54AM
If it's Android, it'll NEED that extra power, since the OS suck batteries like a two dollar whore at Mardi Gras.
I'll take it with WM please, and install Android for testing, hoping it'll come into it's own SOME day.
G @ Jun 30th 2009 7:08AM
nice :)
darkmax @ Jun 30th 2009 7:18AM
My guess is Samsung.
Shinigami @ Jun 30th 2009 7:56AM
Top 5: LG, Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, SonyEricsson. This was the top 5 last time I heard about them. Could be anyone.
There were reports of Motorola Alexander based on Nvidia Tegra but we still have to see any proof. There were rumors of HTC making Tegra phone. And at the moment those are still rumors.
There have been no rumors of Samsung making Tegra device so far.
We know tegra will land in Zune HD. But that is the only Tegra device that has been officially confirmed at the moment, as far as I know.
Please correct me if I am wrong.
Big Al @ Jun 30th 2009 9:16AM
@Shinigami
You're right about the top 5 "cell phone" manufactures but the post specifically mentions the top 5 "smart phone" manufactures.
The top 5 smartphone manufactures are Nokia, RIM, Apple, HTC and Fujitsu (Until I just Googled it, I had no idea that Fujitsu made smartphones, let alone was in the top 5...)
The Tegra is probably gonna be in an HTC, but that's just my guess.
zelnuts @ Jun 30th 2009 1:54PM
Since HTC already had a Tegra phone lined up for Q4 of 2009... My guess is dat this might be the HTC SuperStar....
Someperson @ Jun 30th 2009 6:49PM
Well according to an article found on UnwiredView, there will a Tegra phone released by either Motorola or Samsung so the possibility of it being Android isn't low. Looks like 2009 was the start-up year for Android.
Dictated, not read.
Chu @ Jun 30th 2009 7:22AM
Oh please have Android on it!
Shinigami @ Jun 30th 2009 7:58AM
Why Android? I like gmail integration but buying a phone just because of that...
jakem @ Jun 30th 2009 8:04AM
It won't be Android. NVidia have already said that they intend to focus their attention on WinMo/WinCE.
Phineas J. Whoopie @ Jun 30th 2009 8:43AM
"Nvidia: Right now we support Windows CE, Windows Mobile and Google Android…we feel that right now the Windows platform are more developed and more robust for the netbook market."
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/06/19/we-ask-what-is-tegra-and-why-does-it-matter/
Nvidia is focusing on Windows CE for netbooks....they haven't mentioned a preference for cellphones.
Please be Android...
Alan Strangis @ Jun 30th 2009 9:44AM
I'd much rather it have WM on it, because it's easier to put Android on WM phones than it is to put WM on Android phones.
Android just isn't quite up to snuff yet (though that Sense UI is going a long way towards making it user friendly).
Beastage @ Jun 30th 2009 7:23AM
The ZuneHD kind of indicated the following , the zune-mobile platform is coming.
-Tj- @ Jun 30th 2009 7:33AM
Molly Shannon style: "SuperStar!"
xienze @ Jun 30th 2009 7:37AM
Shouldn't mobile devices consistently have resolutions above 320x480 before we start worrying about playing HD content on them? Just a thought.
Beastage @ Jun 30th 2009 7:41AM
The screen is too small anyway, but the idea is you get an hdmi connection and use the device to play HD anywhere.
Vanillacide @ Jun 30th 2009 7:42AM
Outputs 720p over HDMI.
I would consider switching from iPhone for a Tegra powered Andriod phone, but Microsoft WinMob ... meh!
Malcolm @ Jun 30th 2009 7:47AM
Most high-end WinMo phones have had 800x480 resolution screens for a while now.
xienze @ Jun 30th 2009 7:50AM
Malcolm: I said "consistently", meaning the majority of smartphones should have a resolution over 320x480, not "some". It pisses me off that smartphones have largely languished in the territory of 320x240 or 320x480 for what seems like forever.
And to the others: HDMI out? OK, I guess. Personally I don't get it, but whatever.
Jay @ Jun 30th 2009 9:38AM
You dont "get" HDMI out? How can someone not "get" that?
Without HDMI out my ps3 looks like crap.
xienze @ Jun 30th 2009 9:41AM
Jay: yeah, I don't "get" HDMI out on a freakin' cellphone.
DR House @ Jun 30th 2009 10:31AM
xineze ever heard of DNLA? you can stream your HD videos from your phone to your HDTV without any wire
HDMI is just a bonus but you don't really need it, many phones already support DNLA
pedro @ Jun 30th 2009 7:40AM
Who are the top five? My quick search revealed Nokia, Samsung, LG, Motorola and Sony Ericsson for last year, has the situation changed since last year?
Out of this bunch, my money would go on Sammy or LG, but SE(as HTC??) and Moto are still plausable.
Bring us the HTC superstar already........
Beastage @ Jun 30th 2009 7:42AM
They are still the top five, my money is on Samsung, they churning out phones like candy,
Malcolm @ Jun 30th 2009 7:51AM
Sony Ericsson ditched HTC as their ODM for WinMo devices after the X1 in favour of Mobinnova (part of Foxxconn who also manufacture the iPhone and just about everything else in the known world). It would be nice if the X2 was the Tegra device in question, but I'm not holding my breath.
loopyoyo @ Jun 30th 2009 8:08AM
zune phone ftw! it could probably run windows 7
Alan Strangis @ Jun 30th 2009 9:52AM
There'll never be a Zune phone made by Microsoft.
http://www.rgbfilter.com/?p=815
Microsoft will continue to make the Zune standalone media players, and require 3rd party manufacturers to meet the same minimum specs, so that they can have a unified code base (and same Zune software). MS would piss off too many manufacturers if they made their own phone though.
Duke @ Jun 30th 2009 3:51PM
I don't understand how that shows us it won't ever happen. It seems to me the pink rumors are still going. Also, MS has made other hardware though it competes with those they supply.
skyblaze @ Jun 30th 2009 8:23AM
TareX aint around... guess he overslept again, lol..
this is awesome though... if it's true anyway. tegra is undisputed hotness and pretty much has a forseen deathgrip on skyblaze's bank account :)
eMax @ Jun 30th 2009 8:42AM
Mobile internet device does not mean smartphone.
It could just be the new Zune HD with web browser and WiFi, or similar.
sven vollstag @ Jun 30th 2009 8:43AM
...zii fools...
rickjamess04 @ Jun 30th 2009 9:14AM
this is all but confirmed for the new Storm 2! :P
haX0r @ Jun 30th 2009 9:42AM
you sir are an idiot.
rickjamess04 @ Jun 30th 2009 10:56AM
You sir are an idiot for taking anything I say seriously.
cocoviper @ Jun 30th 2009 11:07AM
@rickjamess04
Isn't that second comment a paradox then?
rickjamess04 @ Jun 30th 2009 11:24AM
@ cocoviper - perhaps, yes. But wouldn't it be a reverse paradox?
Unless of course Haxor was seriously calling me an idiot--therefore no reverse paradox.
steel36 @ Jun 30th 2009 9:47AM
Windows Mobile? Who is building this thing, GM?
Gorilla800lbs @ Jun 30th 2009 9:49AM
Not a Zune phone.
If it were a Zune phone, the spin would not be "from a top-5 cell phone maker", but something else entirely. Arguably the Zune component in a phone would be a bigger scoop than the provenance of said phone's manufacturer.
Mariano @ Jun 30th 2009 10:00AM
OMG. An HTC with Tegra, qwerty, oled screen and android please!!
SouthEastBeast @ Jun 30th 2009 1:16PM
jizz in my pants!
jon @ Jun 30th 2009 10:23AM
"yeah, I don't "get" HDMI out on a freakin' cellphone."
That's because you're still thinking of these types of devices as "just" a cellphone.
shabbis @ Jun 30th 2009 12:30PM
The chipset in the iPhone 3GS currently supports both recording and displaying 720p. It would just take a firmware update from Apple and the sale of a iPhone port to HDMI cable and you've got instant Tegra competition. Or, now that 3.0 allows devs access to the iPhone port, a 3rd party app could be created that could store and output 720p along with the sale of the cable mentioned above.
Blad3 @ Jun 30th 2009 2:16PM
I know you didn't just compare an iphone to the tegras chipset. iDiot
loosely_coupled @ Jun 30th 2009 3:42PM
Nvidia needs to upgrade Tegra. Although the GPU and video abilities are great, it uses a dual 600mhz ARM11, whereas all the new smartphones are using next-gen ARM Cortex-A8 CPUs and soon dual-core Cortex-A9s that scale to 1.5Ghz each. Not to mention PowerVR SGX GPUS can scale to meet Tegra and dedicated 1080P video abilities are available from all the major ARM manufacturers.