Thread: Dr. Ari Jaaksi on Maemo 5
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2008-09-24 , 19:23
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Originally Posted by GeneralAntilles View Post
Well, partly, waiting on TI, since they wont have consumer-device usable OMAP3 silicon out until at least November. Let me break the the timeline down by CPU:

-end 2005: OMAP1710
-end 2006: OMAP2420
-end 2007: OMAP2420
-mid 2009: OMAP3430

A comment I was quick to dismiss before (but seems a lot more relevant now) is that none of these devices was the first device from Nokia to use these chips. It was always Nokia phones using them before the tablets, and we haven't seen any OMAP3 phones yet.
I think the first use of OMAP 1710 (with proof it could drive a large touch screen) in Nokia was the 7710 in 2004, but I could be mistaken.

Is that there much of a difference in the architecture of the OMAP3 that Nokia has to wait for test samples? Isn't the beagleboard sufficient? I have to believe that the N900 is primarily waiting on SW development, not the HW.