The contrast between the advert (below) and the technical details shows why the Symbian Foundation believe they are on to a winner. The Symbian OS has always been designed to run on smaller devices and make best use of the limited resources available on a mobile phone, and that means ever more complicated technology and systems, but at the same time ensuring the system retains a level of simplicity for both the end user and the first and third party developers.
There are some concerns in the comments that, using multiple processors, the battery usage could rise, and that is one area where technology does not make huge leaps every year in terms of capacity, but in fact the same load but shared over the processors will take up less power than on a single chip.
See below for some additional technical highlights and try and keep the drool to a minimum.
About the hardware :
- Single chip base band and application processor engine
- HSPA Modem Release7
- ARM® Cortex™-A9 MPCore
Which can accommodate features and functionality such as :
- HD 1080p camcorder and video
- Up to 18 Million pixels camera
- ~100 hours audio playback time
- 10 hours HD video playback time
- Simultaneously TV out over HDMI
- Video and Imaging accelerator
- HW accelerated 3D Graphics supporting OpenGL ES2.0
- 2xWVGA (960×854) displays
- Touch UI on 2 displays
The full details and discussion are over on the Symbian Foundation blog.
-- Ewan Spence, June 2009.