Thread: Video playback epic fail: My N8 plays 1080p My N9 couldn't even play 720p
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jalyst is offline jalyst
2012-02-08 , 19:27
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#155
Originally Posted by Copernicus View Post
The N9 GPU is the SGX530, a decent general-purpose graphics processor, similar to that used in the iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 (and, of course, the same as used in the N900).
AIR it's not exactly the same as the N900, differences were outlined earlier in this thread.
Primarily die-shrink & higher clock-speed IIRC, but I think there's one or two other minor differences.

And as has been repeated several times in this thread already (not directed at you).
Eventually we may well get to 720p high-profile w/improved CODECS & overclocking.
It's been explained why there's little advantage to this on the phones screen...
But what's handy, is if it can be rescaled on-the-fly to native res, N9's hw can't do that.

Also it will be possible to do HD content playback/streaming via 802.11an + DLNA.
And there's an even better alternative for HD "output" that I'll be posting about soon.
Last edited by jalyst; 2012-02-08 at 19:51.