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2007-09-29 , 13:12
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#105
Originally Posted by fanoush View Post
In this sense it was not significant upgrade at all. Yes CPU is a bit faster and there is more RAM but nothing significantly different. You cannot compare it with big changes in architecture like going from 32 to 64 bits. It is like going from PC with 64MB RAM and Pentium@266Mhz to PC with 128MB RAM and Pentium II @333Mhz. Such changes happen all the time and there is no technical excuse for not having OS2007 running fully on N770. In fact this is what hacker edition is and you can see that it works quite fine on N770. The reasons for ditching N770 were not technical. They simply had no resources for maintaining both devices.
There is some truth in that, but I wouldn't completely agree on "nothing significantly different". Nokia 770 runs OMAP 1710 processor whereas the N800 has the OMAP 2420. Google the TI pages for details on those two, if you haven't already. As the hacker edition shows, quite many parts of the new software can be made to work - to some extent - but there are valid differences in certain things like DSP handling, which certainly aren't by no means trivial.