News - Nokia said to launch N9 running Intel Atom and MeeGo at MWC
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Just rumour for now, but if anyone’s going to pioneer Intel’s smartphone efforts it will surely be Nokia.
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Re: News - Nokia said to launch N9 running Intel Atom and MeeGo at MWC
If the lead Meego device rolls up in May sporting an Atom SoC then i won't touch it with a barge-pole, and i have an n900 now and have been cheering Meego on ever since·
Re: News - Nokia said to launch N9 running Intel Atom and MeeGo at MWC
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Jedibeeftrix
If the lead Meego device rolls up in May sporting an Atom SoC then i won't touch it with a barge-pole, and i have an n900 now and have been cheering Meego on ever since·
Awfully shortsighted given that there is no data on how an Atom SOC will peform in a phone size device with MeeGo on and what the power metrics will be... perhaps at least read some reviews first :rolleyes:
Re: News - Nokia said to launch N9 running Intel Atom and MeeGo at MWC
What software support does meego have compared to Android or i os or even mobile 7.
I think this is a case of too little too late for Nokia.
Re: News - Nokia said to launch N9 running Intel Atom and MeeGo at MWC
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kingpotnoodle
Awfully shortsighted given that there is no data on how an Atom SOC will peform in a phone size device with MeeGo on and what the power metrics will be... perhaps at least read some reviews first :rolleyes:
there has been nothing in the history of x86 atom to make me believe that it can deliver equivalent performance/watt as Arm A9.
there is no real need for it either given the ecosystem of ARM/linux development that has sprung up around touch-enabled market.
Re: News - Nokia said to launch N9 running Intel Atom and MeeGo at MWC
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Jedibeeftrix
there has been nothing in the history of x86 atom to make me believe that it can deliver equivalent performance/watt as Arm A9.
It also very much depends on the OS, and whether the raw performance is put to could use and how the device is designed (battery etc) as to whether the experience is a good one, perf/W of the the CPU is part of the puzzle only, and not many of the A9 SOCs have been heavily tested yet either in phones...
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Jedibeeftrix
there is no real need for it either given the ecosystem of ARM/linux development that has sprung up around touch-enabled market.
Competition is always good for the consumer, even if the new competitor is only minor it forces the incumbent to stay on the ball. Ref: Athlon vs Pentium 4 results in Core.
Re: News - Nokia said to launch N9 running Intel Atom and MeeGo at MWC
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kingpotnoodle
It also very much depends on the OS, and whether the raw performance is put to could use and how the device is designed (battery etc) as to whether the experience is a good one, perf/W of the the CPU is part of the puzzle only, and not many of the A9 SOCs have been heavily tested yet either in phones...
There's also that comment from an Intel tech that ARM designs are very "mature" whereas Atom is comparatively new. Agree with this, or not, ymmv.
But I do agree that you can't necessary see Atom and judge it on the performance of the current parts - remember that these are the new devices that Intel's pushing. And Intel didn't get to where they are now by not learning how to improve their product with each generation (P4 excluded of course)...
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kingpotnoodle
Competition is always good for the consumer, even if the new competitor is only minor it forces the incumbent to stay on the ball. Ref: Athlon vs Pentium 4 results in Core.
:D Or that competing with Intel has forced a.n.other to raise their game - Phenom II hexacores are quite good, although probably(?) technically less capable than i5/i7. In which case it stands to reason that ARM will have to keep "on the ball" to stay in the market.
I just wish that there was an Android version from Nokia... :'( Although I've got Meego 1.1 running on my old Acer netbook and it's very usable.
