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Open Standards for Cell Phone Components
PoisonousPhat writes "STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments, Nokia and ARM have formed the Mobile Industry Processor Interface Alliance (MIPI), who seek to define open standards for cell phone components. Forget that expensive camera phone, just plug in a third-party device." Update: 07/30 18:13 GMT by T : Thanks to Alain Mellan for the link to STMicroelectronics.
I bet it will be like PC standards. noone conforms to them
Sorry? Haven't you heard of IBM compatable?
I have over 70 freaks, do you?
I got tired of buying the car charger every time I got a new phone. My solution? Get a cheap inverter (I got a 75W one from Canadian Tire) and keep it in your car. Then just use your regular charger with it.
You can accomplish anything you set your mind to. The impossible just takes a little longer.
This seems like ARM trying to get everyone adopting their standards. You can bet that ARM IP will be all over it. The ISA will be ARM, communication will be AMBA and the only standards complient accepted development platform will be the ARM SDT.
ARM is trying to get more and more fortified in their mobile phone market and its very difficult to do anything different. Thats why they can charge redicelous prices for their toolkits and the favours to universities (such as discount/free software) have now stopped, because now if you are going to learn low level mobile application coding then it simply has to be ARM. No need for them to attract and convince people to use them any more.
We even wrote our own debugger so we wouldn't have to payt the ARM tax.
Mouse powered Chips, Open source Processors and Lego
The MIPI spec that is developed by this consortium is also mentioned here. They mention ST as a fourth player as well.