In a presumed effort to get its news out before the whirlwind that is Mobile World Congress officially begins,
Marvell has just shot out two vital pieces of information that may very well impact the price and performance of your next smartphone. First off, we've got the new Pantheon platform, which is designed to "provide breakthrough levels of integration that lower the bill of materials for mobile devices while offering consumers excellent performance, connectivity, and a compelling user experience." In other words, this is said to be the core ingredient in a future wave of "$99 smartphones" that can handle 3D gaming, HD media and some random thing called "calling." Next up is the latest member of the
Armada family, the 618. Packed with a 1GHz clock speed and the ability to chew through 1080p content, 3D graphics and pretty much anything else you can throw at it, there's a halfway decent chance we'll see this under the hood of a few upcoming tablets, e-readers and bodacious smartphones. Hopefully we'll learn more at MWC next week, and we'll be sure to share it as soon as we get it.
posted February 12th 2010 3:47PM
Will they have the came ETFs?
@vanmankline Same, maybe. Came, I'm not so sure :P
@aubreyq
Sorry about that. I ain't got no gud eglash oar speling. Did they ever come up with a way to edit posts yet?
@vanmankline
If you're Verizon, the ETF will be proportional to how inexpensive the smartphone is. The less it costs, the higher the ETF will be. You know, to make up for those lost dollars that never existed? :)
Come on Palm Pre 2
@rowehc You guys are gonna have to stop calling "games where you can move along three axis" - "3D Gaming"..
It's getting to confusing with all he real 3D stuff.. for a second I actually thought you had to wear glasses when using any phone with this chip in....
I'll wait till they come out with the $79 Wolverine edition.
...yea, will probably be replacing my Eris in 6 months at this rate...
damn
Looks good to me. It's a definite step in the right direction.
Although it makes Atom look even more puny in some ways.
With all these hypesuckradical smartphone mobile chipsets to choose from, ... wait I forgot my thought.
Anyone knows how much power this processor consumes?
Battery-life?
I hope that's $100 off contract, my buddy got his Eros 4 free
What is it that tells me the savings won't be passed on all that quickly.
@savagemike What, what tells you? And I think this is a case where if Google is largely involved in design, marketing and branding then it directly sells to consumers and can negotiate $10 off a carriers regular monthly charges, like they did if you bought an unsubsidized phone consumers will win two ways.
@juanvaldez Google did not negotiate anything off a monthly plan, T-Mobile charges everyone less if they don't get a subsidized phone.
The parts for the Nexus One cost less than $200. They're selling it for $530.
Maybe they could put two of these in the next SUPERphone
Be the same cost as a snapdragon phone but twice the speed D:
right? right?
Do they know MD5/SHA-1 is broken? Why not include Sha-256? I mean i'm a programmer and i use MD5 for stuff thats not security related but if this is going to be used for security then i want something more than MD5/SHA-1