Holy. Crap. So, umm, have you been wondering what the Symbian foundation has been up to since revealing the mother of all development schedules? A whole lot, is what it’s been up to. Long story short, the team has cooperated with ST-Ericsson and ARM to build the first working example of multi-core goodness running on production chips with an open OS. Short story long…
Here’s what they slapped together:
- Single chip base band and application processor engine
- HSPA Modem Release7
- ARM® Cortex-A9 MPCore
And here’s what it’s capable of:
- HD 1080p camcorder and video
- Up to 18 Million pixels camera
- ~100 hours audio playback time
- 10 hours HD video playback time
- Simultaneously TV out over HDMI
- Video and Imaging accelerator
- HW accelerated 3D Graphics supporting OpenGL ES2.0
- 2xWVGA (960×854) displays
- Touch UI on 2 displays
Hot damn. We’ll take five. Of course this is just a proof of concept and please, don’t expect first generation Symbian^2 devices to be cooking with all that gas. But it’s all there — today. Right now all this adds up to a synopsis alongside a promo video intending to show potential partners what Symbian is capable of, but for us it means exciting times ahead, people. Exciting times.
[Via IntoMobile]
