TI to launch smartphone based on Cobalt

ignatz · 02-11-2005, 07:28 AM

Palmloyal is carrying an announcement that Texas Instruments (TI) will be showing two devices (presumably smartphones) running Cobalt on TI's OMAP processors. Encouraging news, but there is little mention of the devices themselves in the article. In fact, the only way that one would know they are smartphones is in the headline... They are supposed to be at a demo in France next week, so with luck we'll get some pics after that. [originally posted on PalmAddicts]

UPDATE: Brighthand is carrying a similar article dated two days earlier. Their article makes ita bit clearer to me that these are just reference designs and not actual saleable devices. A reference design is, I suppose, just a proof of concept model that is available for other companies to emulate? A bit less exciting, but at least there's a device out there running Cobalt...

gadgetguru · 02-11-2005, 12:19 PM

Hopefully someone would license the design from TI and release them. In the same way, the Qool was also developed by another company and licensed, manufactured, and sold.

02-11-2005, 07:28 AM	#1
ignatz mechanoholic Posts: 582 Karma: 1000217 Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Sarasota, FL Device: Nook STR/iPhone 4S/EVO 4G	TI to launch smartphone based on Cobalt Palmloyal is carrying an announcement that Texas Instruments (TI) will be showing two devices (presumably smartphones) running Cobalt on TI's OMAP processors. Encouraging news, but there is little mention of the devices themselves in the article. In fact, the only way that one would know they are smartphones is in the headline... They are supposed to be at a demo in France next week, so with luck we'll get some pics after that. [originally posted on PalmAddicts] UPDATE: Brighthand is carrying a similar article dated two days earlier. Their article makes ita bit clearer to me that these are just reference designs and not actual saleable devices. A reference design is, I suppose, just a proof of concept model that is available for other companies to emulate? A bit less exciting, but at least there's a device out there running Cobalt...

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02-11-2005, 12:19 PM	#2
gadgetguru Addict Posts: 214 Karma: 6370 Join Date: May 2003 Location: Asia Device: Tungsten T5	Hopefully someone would license the design from TI and release them. In the same way, the Qool was also developed by another company and licensed, manufactured, and sold.

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