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TI Lands OMAP in a Pocket PC.
An anonymous reader writes: "TI has officially invaded Intel's territory, having landed its OMAP chip in HP's Jornada 928. TI also landed a SmartPhone reference design agreement with Microsoft, but so did Intel. See the article, and a picture of the unit at Forbes.com."
Does this mean that the Jornada in question isn't a Pocket PC 2002 device any more?
No. The Pocket PC 2002 uses an ARM processor which can be made by anybody, and TI, Motorolla and Intel all manufacture ARM processors.
I'm not sure which brand HP was using prior to this, but I was surprised to see this as 'news'.
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I'll save you the trouble and place a direct link to the OMAP page at TI.
Other OMAP-related products:
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MICROSOFT AND TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INTRODUCE WINDOWS-POWERED SMARTPHONE 2002 AND OMAP(TM) REFERENCE DESIGN
New 2.5G Reference Design Combines Strengths of Smartphone 2002 Software and TI's OMAP Processors to Enable Rich Voice and Data-Capable Phones in Small, Sleek Form Factor
You can read the full article at http://focus.ti.com/docs/pr/pressrelease.jhtml?pr
I also suspect that many other products will begin to appear similar to this new Jornada and SmartPhone. You can probably sign-up to be notified on ti.com (Texas Instruments' website).
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For those who are not so lucky to get there quick enough, go here to see pics and screenshots.
If I have to choose between HP and Treo, I would prefer Treo. It's smaller and I want a phone that can be PDA. This HP is PDA that has phone feature. but for someone who paln to do a lot of wireless web browser, HP beats treo to the ground.
Looks like the requirement is for a 32-bit ARM-based chip. Here's an article that mentions it.
infoSync's article has a much better picture of the Jornada 928 than the token thumbnail Forbes provides.
They also have an article about what has been added to WinCE (guess I know why MS calls it PocketPC now...) to turn it into a mobile phone-integrated PDA. There are six (!) pages of screen shots in that one. You can also look forward to "...Mobile Information Server (MIS) 2002 Enterprise Edition, which adds Server ActiveSync..." -- here's ANOTHER pie MS wants to sell you pieces of.
The interesting thing is that ringtones -- which phone companies want to charge you for -- aren't there. Instead, you can assign .WAV files as ring tones, and specific files for specific callers. Wonder what the motivation for that move is...?
Still... I want one!
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Yes, I do work for TI.
>> TI has officially invaded Intel's territory, having landed its OMAP chip in HP's Jornada 928.
I would hardly call the cell phone and handheld market "Intel's territory." The cell phone market already dominated by TI (60%+ market share), while Motorola has a much stronger presence in the handheld market with its Dragonball processor. In fact, TI has signed up 9 out the top 10 cell phone manufacturers to use its OMAP platform.