Posted Feb 3, 2010 22:38 UTC (Wed) by dcbw (guest, #50562)
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Interesting; though the scope there is quite a bit smaller; no real radio management, low-latency audio paths, fast 3D graphics, are required which makes the driver bring-up less intensive. Also the hardware refresh cycle for these is probably a lot slower than a phone, so you can recoup a lot more of your investment.
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Posted Feb 4, 2010 11:24 UTC (Thu) by broonie (subscriber, #7078)
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Thing is, Linux has a pretty good mainline stack for all of these things (possibly excepting 3D) - to the extent that people play with mainline a lot of this stuff is available off the shelf.
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Posted Feb 4, 2010 11:35 UTC (Thu) by SimonKagstrom (subscriber, #49801)
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The Samsung Spica Android phone is also built on their own platform (6410 I
believe).