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iPad confirmed to use PowerVR SGX graphics, Apple job posting suggests A4 chip will hit other products
Feb 23rd
It may not be as big a surprise as the A4 itself was, but Apple has now confirmed via the latest iPad SDK Beta 3 documentation that the iPad does indeed use PowerVR SGX graphics hardware as part of its custom system-on-a-chip, which flatly contradicts of A4 using Mali, and lines up with what our pal has been telling us lately. What Apple doesn’t confirm, unfortunately, is exactly which chip in the PowerVR SGX family the iPad uses, so it’s still at least possible that it could pack a bigger punch than the iPhone or iPod touch.
In related news, a recent Apple job posting has now also offered up the first hard evidence that Apple might actually be putting its huge investment in A4 to use other platforms besides the iPad — shocking, we know. That job is for an Engineering Manager, who would lead a team focused on the “bring-up of iPhone OS on new platforms,” and would otherwise be responsible for “low level platform architecture, firmware, core drivers and bring-up of new hardware platforms” — experience with ARM-based SoCs is also an “additional success factor.” Sound like the job you’ve been waiting for? Then hit up the link below for the complete details.
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Good job there, Samsung – truly innovative
Feb 14th
It’s said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. But sometimes the imitation is so slavish and unimaginative that you have to think that maybe someone isn’t even trying any more. Case in point: Bada and TouchWiz 3.0. Honestly: you come to the smartphone OS race five or six years late, and all you can come up with is a carbon copy of the iPhone? Did you think no one would notice?
I was kind of hoping Bada was going to be something interesting. It’s clear now that it’s an abortive, derivative effort that owes everything to phones already on the market. It looks better than S60, but I have a feeling even WinMo 7 is going to beat the pants off Bada and then both are going down in flames.
As for the vaunted “single stream” of messaging, email, and so on — good luck with that. It’s only by modularizing the streams of data constantly entering our lives that we can make sense of them. I get the feeling that this is going to be a short-lived phenomenon.
