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."

Comments

Who said this:

[Matey-O]

"If you combine a cell phone with a PDA, you're either going to get a PDA that's a crappy cellphone or a cellphone that's a crappy PDA"

As cool as this looks, I don't think the above has been invalidated yet. I'll STILL point to the example that came up with Qualcomm's PDA/Cellphone: What happens when you want to talk to comeone and LOOK AT YOUR PDA at the same time? (Nah, I don't carry the hands free earbud everywhere I go...it's got a CABLE...it gets TANGLED.)

TI-85

[aardwolf64]

Well... I guess with TI's calculator background we don't have to worry about any floating point errors...*grin*

Re:The article wasn't clear

[Oliver Wendell Jones]

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'.

Good Thing

[D_Fresh]

Anything that challenges Intel's processor hegemony in emergent platform markets is fine with me. Not because I hate Intel, but because tying the future of any industry's hardware to a single vendor is just asking for trouble. Monopoly or not, excessive dependence on a single architecture smacks of too many eggs in one basket, which ends up giving the suppliers greater control than the customers over the capabilities and cost of the units. Any biologist can tell you that host diversity goes a long way toward stopping epidemics that threaten to wipe out the whole species.

Perhaps the fabrication of these PDA chips will be a good toehold for the next Intel of the chip industry, since it's too hard to break into the current desktop market with the complexity of those chips.

infoSync has a better picture

[Raetsel]

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!

Intel's territory?

[tiomapengineer]

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.