Thread: Neo900 - finally a successor of N900
View Single Post
joerg_rw's Avatar
joerg_rw is offline joerg_rw
2014-02-11 , 03:38
Posts: 2,222 | Thanked: 12,651 times | Joined on Mar 2010 @ SOL 3
#1750
Originally Posted by DDark View Post
Really good article. But it raises another "fanboy" question, can you cooperate with Pandora and get better deal from TI, or OMAP5 is rejected because of battery life/compatibility/PCB space.
OMAP5 got rejected because of risk management: GTA04 is based on OMAP3, and fremantle runs on OMAP3, and it's still unclear if we could get a OMAP5 that would even fit into the case. Then we would need to do a complete new design instead of basing Neo900 on already proven-to-work GTA04 design. Then the question arises whether fremantle could get ported to OMAP5 SoC which is quite a bit different to OMAP3 SoCs. While Neo900 group doesn't do any software porting, it's still a major product spec key feature that Neo900 *can* run a ported fremantle.
And, on a sidenote: afaik Nikolaus is in close contact to the pandora guys since quite a while, he helped them recover from their manufacturing disaster.

/j
Last edited by joerg_rw; 2014-02-11 at 04:00.
 

The Following 12 Users Say Thank You to joerg_rw For This Useful Post: