It's been a long, long while since we've seen any life from the
OMAP4 labs at
Texas Instruments, but with the sudden resurgence of the tablet, now seems just about right for the company to start showcasing the platform's prowess once more. TI is expected to have a mind-bending showcase at Mobile World Congress later this month, but
Slashgear was able to get a sneak peek at what's to come at the outfit's Dallas office. The device you're peering at above definitely piqued our interest, as it's some sort of twin-screened handheld that can actually support a third independent display courtesy of an integrated pico projector module. We're told that OMAP4 will bring along dual 1GHz ARM A9 cores, patently ridiculous battery life figures (145 hours of MP3 playback with a 1,000mAh battery) and support for 1080p output via HDMI. Naturally, TI has no intention of ever bringing this piece of hardware to market, but it'd certainly love if some other firm stepped in and did so. Here's hoping we're overrun by potential suitors in Barcelona -- given that the show kicks off on Valentine's Day, we'd say the timing would be just about perfect.
posted February 2nd 2010 5:43PM
Wow ... take notes Intel ... or ARM chip will take you.
In its current form it seems useless. Someone prove me wrong.
@Pupitmiser completely useless,maybe zune hd 2? who knows.
this looked like a new texas instrument calculator but it's unfortunate ti doesn't make hi-res calculators running omap4
@xconan i agree, i thought it looks as big as a graphing calculator, and nothing more than a show of power.