Texas Instruments’ OMAP4 Uncurtained, Tons of Potential Teased In A While!!

Texas Instruments, whose OMAP processors are used in some of the most popular devices like Nokia N900, N90, N95, N82, E61, E90 and a few others, Palm Pre, Samsung Omnia HD and even Motorola Droid, is now planning for its next-gen OMAP4 processor.

The Open Multimedia Application Processor (OMAP) for this generation i.e., OMAP 4 is a revolutionary processor with bedazzling processing skills that would be sure-shot compositions of upcoming hi-tech smartphones and tablet PCs.

Let’s just start by saying that a device run by OAMP4 and powered by 1000mAh battery would deliver up to 145 hours of music playback, where even most of the hi-end smartphones today succumb to a max of approx. only 35 hours of music playback.

That’s just one instance, there is more, like the capability to drive three displays simultaneously of which two are on-board displays and one is supposed to be a TV-out display with full HD video quality or external screen just like a pico projector.

While you can use each of the these two on-board screens for web browsing or gaming, the third one does the TV-out honors as an OMAP4 powered device may also feature a HDMI port for allowing full HD 1080p video at 30fps.

Featured : OMAP4 Chipset Powering 3 Displays Simultaneously

Exceptional performance strokes will  impress you when you flick content from one screen to the another, perhaps and most probably, on a touch screen interface.

The chipset will also feature a “universal decode” that should allow all sorts of media irrespective of its format to be played on the OMAP4 powered device, interestingly amusing, isn’t it?

Texas Instruments already has a working prototype of an OMAP4 powered device that boasts two 3.7 inch WVGA displays, a 12 megapixel camera paired with dual front cameras and an integrated 15-lumen DLP Pico-projector.

OMAP4 Device : Gadget of The Future ?

Besides there is support for HDMI, Ethernet, USB 2.0, Bluetooth and WiFi connectivity, 3G capabilities, GPS, proximity and accelerometer sensors and a lot more. And yes, it’s driven by Android OS.

It’s no jaw-dropping speculations pals, the device is supposed to available only for Developers until then and for the same reason packs all these exploding features.

The OMAP4 chipsets are most likely to be used to power future gadgets like OMAP4-laden tablets and smartphones and may be available in either of these by the end of 2010 or early 2011 though there is no word on the brands that would be picked up to ingest OMAP4.

We’ll let you know as more details surface. Stay tuned.

Courtesy : SlashGear