Thursday, February 17, 2011

Honeycomb: Tegra 2 is not mandatory

At MWC, in Honeycomb shelves have a similar setup: screen 1280 x 800 and above Tegra SoC 2, a dual core chip at 1 GHz. We have therefore asked the manufacturers why this "standardization" on the shelves, while smartphones use different hardware platforms often enough. In the majority of manufacturers, the answer was simple "Ask Google".

Yet, ARM, we had an answer, which is what it is: it's just a matter of time. Explain. The first tablet is the Honeycomb Xoom Motorola, based Tegra 2 and a screen 1280 x 800. Before marketing, Google validates the design (internal) - including access to the Android Market - and this process may take some time.

Other manufacturers, using the same hardware platform (almost) can limit the time for validation of Google and therefore offer products quickly. Since the MWC, high mass mobility, was close to the launch pad from Motorola, the manufacturers had no other choice, which suits well NVIDIA. And because the platform is effective, it must be said, this is not really a problem.

But technically, nothing prevents us from shelves in Honeycomb offer screens with better (or less) defined or another processor than NVIDIA, it will just have to wait a little Google validates the new design.

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