Qualcomm chips promises 1GHz speeds in 'mainstream smartphones,' simultaneous HSPA+ / LTE support
By Darren Murph 
posted November 12th 2009 12:36PM
posted November 12th 2009 12:36PM
Qualcomm's Snapdragon has brought about a new wave of possibilities for smartphones, but evidently those chips are just too exclusive to slip into so-called "mainstream smartphones." In order to remedy such a tragedy, the outfit has today introduced the MSM7x30 family of solutions, which uses an 800 MHz to 1GHz custom superscalar CPU based on the ARM v7 instruction set. The chips support 720p video encoding / decoding at 30fps, integrated 2D and 3D graphics (with support for OpenGL ES 2.0 and OpenVG 1.1), 5.1-channel surround sound, a 12 megapixel camera sensor and built-in GPS. In related news, the outfit also announced that it is sampling the industry's first chipsets for dual-carrier HSPA+ and multi-mode 3G / LTE, which ought to make those champing at the bit for a speedier WWAN highway exceedingly giddy. Hit the links below for all the technobabble.
Battery life?
Hmmm... Good for future iPhones? And any transitioning GSM smartphone really...
good job!!!
CDMA/GSM dual support?
sure why not?
lets also support AMPS...
how about sttring and a tin can support also?
Plus, if I'm not mistaken I've heard rumors that the Crunchpad and Qualcomm have common interests.
Multi-mode 3G is synonymous for "UMTS and CDMA support." You should have read the articles.
CONSUMERS WIN!
Next year is the year to buy a phone. I'm holding off for usb 3.0, bluetooth 3.0, LTE, HDMI out, 8 mpx cam and OLED display and this ofcourse!
But I heard that holographic projectors will be big in 2011, and direct neural interfaces in 2012...
Yes but those won't come take advantage of an entire network upgrade.
Yeah, but I heard that in 2035 they will come out with 'holodeck mobile's. I think I'll wait for that one.
So what will happen to Verizon and LTE?
will there be a CDMA/LTE/HSPA capable device or something in that nature? i mean that is alot of radios to pack into a small phone.
Great specs and all but seeing is believing.
A 1 GHz. Scorpion core, as used in Snapdragon, is faster than a 1 GHz Cortex-A8 core.
As for the next Tegra chip, you probably need quite a bit of patience before that will show up in phones.
All fine and good, but, why show a picture of an under-clocked device?
Did anybody read the articles that were posted with this? It would answer every single question you guys have asked.
I don't doubt it but, how sick would it be if the next iphone was clocked at 1Ghz
Scorpion is not only faster at the same clock speed, it consumes less power as well.
720P ENCODING and decoding, 12MP camera sensor, 5.1-channel audio... Is this a phone or a portable AV media center?
(They need to add on-chip NES/SNES/N64/Game Cube/Game Boy/GBA/DS/Genesis/Atari/Coleco/Commodore/TurboGrafx emulation...)
Oops... forgot TI 99/4A and Tandy Color Computer...
Apple II and III would be nice, but probably would need licensing.
how could you forget Crysis?
That's a game, not a platform...