Guest Paul [MVP] Posted September 24, 2003 Report Posted September 24, 2003 News.com has an interesting article (cheers Smartphony!) here about a new Nvidia mobile graphics chip, set to appear in an upcoming Smartphone: Nvidia said it has "many" customers for the GoForce 2150, though the company declined to say who is on the list besides Mitac, which is using the chip in its Mio 8390 phone. Earlier MediaQ customers include Mitsubishi, Siemens, Palm, Sharp, Philips Electronics, Dell and Sony. Awesome news, this should be fantastic, and I'd expect to see a strong uptake if it proves to be successful! Move over N-Gage... ;) P
Guest akarno Posted September 24, 2003 Report Posted September 24, 2003 I look forward to playing Doom 3 on my next smartphone then. :wink:
Guest Crispy Posted September 24, 2003 Report Posted September 24, 2003 I can only say one thing: COOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!!!!!!!! More info on teh chip can be found >>here<< The GoForce 2150 offers a host of advanced features for cell phones and PDAs, including support for 1.3 megapixel image capture, accelerated graphics for gaming, and motion JPEG capture and playback. Using dedicated hardware accelerator engines, the GoForce 2150 delivers exceptionally high performance for multimedia applications and drives high resolution displays, while extending handheld battery life through a variety of unique power management techniques. The GoForce 2150 powers high resolution displays, supporting up to QVGA and over 200,000 colors, for richer, truer colors and higher image quality. GoForce 2150 also supports high-quality graphics on secondary displays found on “clamshell” or “flip” phones Edit: Forgot the most obvious link: http://nvidia.com/page/goforce.html
Guest Maverick Posted September 24, 2003 Report Posted September 24, 2003 This is Mind blowing !! I guess this means MS Smartphone i.e Mitac 8390 will be the first mobile phone in the world to have a graphics card :-)
Guest spacecowboy6982 Posted September 24, 2003 Report Posted September 24, 2003 Wow - this is fantastic ! Technology nowadays is just awesome !
Guest Richie M Posted September 24, 2003 Report Posted September 24, 2003 This will definitly make the 8390 THE phone to wait for, unfortunately i cant find any mention of the chip (or the 8390 :shock:) on Mitac's site. And all the information on the 8390 posted so far has no mention of it :roll: Fingers crossed ;)
Guest Paul [MVP] Posted September 24, 2003 Report Posted September 24, 2003 I like this part... Megapixel Camera Support Support for 1.3-megapixel image capture makes it possible to capture photographic quality images with your cell phone or PDA that can then be displayed on a high-resolution computer monitor and printed in a standard 4x6 inch photo size. ;) P
Guest Terwin Posted September 24, 2003 Report Posted September 24, 2003 Actually, the Mitac Mio 8380 also has a simular video accelerator made by qmedia...which is the company nvidia bought. My bet is they are simular chip, but now that it's a "geforce" product it's getting the more usual nvidia press ;)
Guest AngelOfRage Posted September 24, 2003 Report Posted September 24, 2003 thats made up my mind, move over SPV2 im gonna get the 8390....
Guest Posted September 24, 2003 Report Posted September 24, 2003 Wow. Knocks that Intel press-release into a cocked hat really. Mitac 8390 sitting pretty at top of my wishlist. The 1.3megapixel camera is great news too - fingers crossed Orange can go even further with SPV2.
Guest Mr_Protozoa Posted September 24, 2003 Report Posted September 24, 2003 think i'm gonna postpone my spv2 upgrade untill one of these bad boys comes out!
Guest Posted September 24, 2003 Report Posted September 24, 2003 Looking at Sebset's post on mobile-review.com the press release was; Mitac unveils world’s first Microsoft 2003 OS Smartphone – the Mio 8390 – at Computex Chinmei Sung, Taipei [Monday 22 September 2003] Mitac International today debuted the world’s first smartphone running on Microsoft Smartphone 2003 OS at Computex Taipei 2003. The Mio 8390 is the company’s second Microsoft Smartphone. The handset features a 200MHz Intel Dalhart processor, a 65,000-color TFT LCD panel, 40 polyphonic ring tones, MMS support, Java MIDP 2.0 support and a VGA CMOS built-in digital camera. For expansion, it has a slot for SD I/O~MMC Secure Digital (SD) cards. It is unclear when the product will be available. The company said it is still discussing deals with mobile operators. Mitac was the first company to launch a smartphone based on Intel’s XScale technology. It debuted the Mio 8380 in June and has been shipping the smartphone to mobile operators in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Malaysia. The company did not ship any handsets prior to the second quarter of 2003. Mitac said it would possibly launch a third model by year-end. The company is evaluating other operating systems in addition to Microsoft’s. Sources estimate that Mitac will ship 80,000 smartphone units this year. Its Kunshan, Jiangsu Province (China) plant is handling all of its smartphone production. No mention of the Nvidia chip. Surely something as advanced as a dedicated GPU in a phone would be mentioned in this release? :?
Guest spacecowboy6982 Posted September 24, 2003 Report Posted September 24, 2003 Yeh - its def. got the specs. but i have to question the phones design, shape and aesthetics etc. Doesnt look the sexiest out there...
Guest Terwin Posted September 25, 2003 Report Posted September 25, 2003 Actually, the Mitac Mio 8380 also has a simular video accelerator made by qmedia...which is the company nvidia bought. My bet is they are simular chip, but now that it's a "geforce" product it's getting the more usual nvidia press ;) Just looked it up. The 8380 has the MQ1188 and the 8390 has the MQ2150. Both are accelerator chips. I really like the camera specs on the 8390 tho. The 8380 camera is a toy compared to the 8390 resolution.
Guest Coucou Posted September 25, 2003 Report Posted September 25, 2003 Accelerator chips are all well and good, but it only means you've got a decent processor, can the camera itself perform as well as that? 1.3 megapixels needs a (much) larger CCD chip than seen in a phone before, unless someone can correct me? Does it say in the 8390 specs what the camera resolution is? edit: Just seen on CoolSmartPhone that it's 300K pixel resolution, that's good for such a small camera but it's nowhere near 1.3 megapixel. :?
Guest kmon Posted September 25, 2003 Report Posted September 25, 2003 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- jez man... as i was reading this (inteserting) post i was thinking just that!!!! The Charged Coupled Device needs to be much larger not the GPU power,I mean, surly, a £79 digital camera does not contain the latest GPU and yet are very small,not to say CHEAP?!!!. don't GPU's accelarate processes??? kmon?!!! confused EDIT I posted this AFTER the last post yet over an hour before it??strange.. :?: _________________
Guest AngelOfRage Posted September 29, 2003 Report Posted September 29, 2003 didnt i read that the 8390 could take normal photo quality pictures that can be printed at 6inches by 4inches? but reading on, doesnt this basically say what the *chip* is capable of, not the phone itself... i mean the chips specs says its capable of a 200k colour phone or pda display, yet in the specs of the 8390 it lists only 65k colours...
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