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Microsoft will announce its entry into the smartphone market with an iPhone rival built around NVIDIA’s new system-on-a-chip (SoC) for small form factor mobile devices, according to the Inquirer website.The Inquirer says that inside information has it that Microsoft will unveil the device at February’s 3GSM conference in Barcelona with shipments expected to follow shortly thereafter.
Features and functions were not mentioned, but it did state that “well-placed sources” claim it will be powered by one of NVIDIA’s all-in-one Tegra chips.
It it thought the Tegra will be made available in three variants: the Tegra 600 for GPS and automotive markets, the Tegra 650 for large handhelds and notebooks, and the Tegra APX 2500 for smartphones.
The Tegra APX 2500 is said to include a 600 MHz MPCore Processor, support for a 12 megapixel camera, GeForce ULV support for OpenGL ES 2.0, up to 720p H.264 decoding, and NVIDIA nPower technology that could enable over 10 hours of HD video playback and up to 100 hours of audio.
