Some info on the OMAP4430

[tonydelite]

I was doing some research, bc I think the droid 3 is going to be my next phone. I looked up the OMAP4430 (Droid3 chipset) and found out some exciting information:

OMAP 4
The 4th generation OMAPs, OMAP4430, 4460 and 4470 all use dual-core ARM Cortex-A9s as well as two ARM Cortex-M3s running at 266 MHz to offload the A9s in less computionally intensive tasks to increase power efficiency.[5][6][7] 4430 and 4460 use a PowerVR SGX540 integrated 3D graphics accelerator which runs at a clock frequency of 304 and 384 MHz respectively compared to previous incarnations of SGX540 typically at 200 MHz making them theoretically much faster.[8] 4470 has a PowerVR SGX544 GPU that supports DirectX 9 which enables it for use in Windows 8 as well as a dedicated 2D graphics core for increased power efficiency. All OMAP 4 comes with an IVA3 multimedia hardware accelerator with a programmable DSP that enables 1080p Full HD and multi-standard video encode/decode.[9][10][11][12][13] OMAP 4 use ARM-Cortex A9s with ARMs SIMD engine (Media Processing Engine, aka NEON) which may have a significant performance advantage in some cases over Nvidia Tegra 2s Cortex-A9s with non-vector floating point units.[14] It also uses a dual-channel LPDDR2 memory controller compared to Nvidia Tegra 2s single-channel memory controller.

I'm really curious about the Cortex M3 cores used to increase power efficiency. Hopefully this, combined with a lack of LTE will give this phone pretty decent battery life.

 

[Raptor007]

This is really cool news especially the right SOC config to fully support 1080p recording and playback. Now all you need is a 32GB Class 10 microSD card, especially since we won't get one in the box, thanks Verizon. You do know that the list price will likely be $449.99 even though it has no memory card.

 

[darkmatter]

D3 using 4430, Bionic 4460.... wtf is going to be using the 4470?

 

[Raptor007]

Perhaps the first Moto phone with ICS in it, 720p display etc. my guess is CES 2012 announcement with a fall 2012 release by Moto since they cannot get anything out on time. Hello Moto, where is the Bionic, its been 6 months.

 

[nbucko]

I'm really curious about the Cortex M3 cores used to increase power efficiency. Hopefully this, combined with a lack of LTE will give this phone pretty decent battery life.

I'm curious about this as well. If they can deliver a significant increase in performance along with a significant increase in battery life I may consider giving up my og Droid regardless of no 4g. The fact that 4g isn't in my area (Kansas City) makes it a little easier of a decision.

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