Re: Rumor: N9 to have 1.2Ghz Atom
 

If I was going to place a bet here, I'd put it on Intel CPU. The reason is that MeeGo is a child of both Nokia and Intel and that Intel at some point in the future will release MeeGo devices. This means that Intel will expect to have available 3rd-party apps that were developed for MeeGo phones instantly, which is not possible if there is a different architecture.

See this thread for a related talk.

Re: Rumor: N9 to have 1.2Ghz Atom
 

The hardware enumeration from the boot log fragment showed a lot of non-typical-PC hardware (e.g. GPS on I2C bus).

Depends more on the GPU, my Acer Revo R3610p (1.6GHz Atom 330 Dual Core) running XBMC plays 1080p h.264 with about 15% CPU utilisation. This is because the NVidia ION GPU it has has hardware-accelerated h.264 decoding.

Of course, thus my comment that Nokia working on Atom-based development kits doesn't necessarily have anything to do with *handsets*, tablets are probably a better target with Atom?

Re: Rumor: N9 to have 1.2Ghz Atom
 

Seen any Apple adverts recently?

In fact, any phone or computer adverts - just this morning I saw an advert for the intel core i5, which promised me that having one in my PC would enable me to experience images like never before...

Hmmmm...

Either that, or adverts will boast a feature common to lots of devices but maybe less known, so everyone will go 'Ooooh with the xPhone I can do xxxx' so I'm going to buy one of those instead of the yPhone'...

Does this happen with windows mobile or the iPhone? Actually what seems to happen is a 'mobile version' of PC software is made, which bears little resemblance to the 'full version'

"I've got photoshop on my phone!"

"No you haven't."

Re: Rumor: N9 to have 1.2Ghz Atom
 

The Forer effect

Re: Rumor: N9 to have 1.2Ghz Atom
 

can someone tell how the atom is different compared to snapdragon/hummingbird/tegra/orion?
Not having a dualcore in 2011, and been said it has dreamspecs...
so many questions(ram, gpu, EMMC, infraredport..will it be 3x powerfull compared to n900..)answers on 16feb

Re: Rumor: N9 to have 1.2Ghz Atom
 

Quote one.

AFAIK they depend mostly on using images and positive interpretations of them by the audience rather than explicitly mentioning a 'promise'. You can't claim product misrepresentation when the customer is doing the interpretation not based on written claims.

This should be fine too, if the user is unfamiliar with said feature.

But I think you've missed the point of my post, which was made in reply to Andrew's.

Re: Rumor: N9 to have 1.2Ghz Atom
 

latest rumors N900 will use VIA chipset...

Re: Rumor: N9 to have 1.2Ghz Atom
 

Then why develop an ARM variant of Meego at all? Seems like a waste of resouces if they only intend to use it on x86 devices.

My prediction is that the N9 will be released late March and have an ARM CPU.

Re: Rumor: N9 to have 1.2Ghz Atom
 

I like x86. It's a nice pocket heater :)

Re: Rumor: N9 to have 1.2Ghz Atom
 

if (x86 compatibility($N9)) {
port('VMWare');
}

mkaythanksplz.