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Originally Posted by quingu View Post
development cycle for new "smart"phones is at least 2 years. that means that a device to be released in 2011 can sport a completely new generation of chips.

omap4 is announced for 2010 and is said to have multicore, a clock of 1ghz (out of the box!), enough processing power for 1080p decoding (something that not even some notebooks manage) and 720p recording (read: encoding on the fly).

Note that I have no idea what 2011's phones will have under the hood, the omap4 is just a possible example.

comparing an omap3 phone to a prototype with one of these monster chips is completely pointless. no one would complain that the n810 would be less potent than its possible successor.


tl;dr: in 2-3 years there will be awesome phones.
The processor that eldar spoke of also was medfeild which is an intel 32nm soc... He says power drain is comparable to today but nothing special but will be widely available about he 2011 time frame... Interesting devices would be built off this hardware platform... Samsung could possible use a chip to power the linux device. But arm omap4 would be pretty competent as well it's successor after so choices with hardware software for 2011 should be plentiful...