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Originally Posted by wmarone View Post
I suspect that there never has been an Atom based handset inside Nokia. If anything, the one that was canceled was the OMAP3 based device supposedly running MeeGo/Harmattan, replaced with a Cortex-A9 based hardware design running MeeGo.

I'll be surprised if there's an x86 based phone out this year.
more likelly nokial has intel insteead of a9. Reason: this is not even a buildsystem for OBS armport working at meego.com. So by this I say I will be suprised to see ANY meegophone out from nokia especccially not arm based...
 
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Originally Posted by riahc3 View Post
And?

Trend follower then?
Yes. Nokia has no real option. They're not Apple, who has a built in follower base that will buy and tout regardless.

cant because there is no reason to put a dual core in a smartphone. Its like putting a Ferrari engine on a 1960. Buying a Intel i7 to play Pong. No reason at all.
Then you're unaware of the advantages given to OSes like Linux when you have a second physical core available. Especially in high end phones it makes sense, what with everything they're being made to do these days.

You cannot in any case for the above replace "laptop" with "smartphone".
Again, you don't understand the advantages given by having a secondary processor. Ever had your N900 lag or be slow when something else decided to hit the CPU? Stuttering? While one process is operating in the foreground, a secondary cpu core can allow background tasks to operate without adversely affecting the foreground task. This results in increased responsiveness and an enhanced use experience. And if you have less stuff backed up on one core, you can complete tasks faster and the CPU can go back to sleep. In fact, the secondary core will probably spend a large amount of time OFF, only waking to handle background tasks.

Do not say there is no use or no point, because that is false.

Originally Posted by mikecomputing View Post
more likelly nokial has intel insteead of a9. Reason: this is not even a buildsystem for OBS armport working at meego.com.
Tell that to all the people at Nokia using the ST-Ericsson U8500 platforms (the nCDK) and Stskeeps.
 

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Originally Posted by mikecomputing View Post
more likelly nokial has intel insteead of a9. Reason: this is not even a buildsystem for OBS armport working at meego.com. So by this I say I will be suprised to see ANY meegophone out from nokia especccially not arm based...
We have a perfectly fine meego.com OBS that builds for both Intel and ARM constantly. Lately we've been adding the hard floating point ABI port and developing tools where there's been some problems, which is maybe what you've seen. But ARM soft floating point has been building without issue.

So, no, your theory doesn't hold.
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