Samsung Making Phone with Nvidia's Tegra?

By Kevin Parrish, published on July 24, 2009 at 7:01 PM
Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: , , , , | Themes: Smartphones, Digital Entertainment
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Samsung is one of the five rumored manufacturers to use Nvidia's Tegra processor.

A spokesperson from Samsung confirmed with LaptopMag earlier today that the company is indeed one of the five manufacturers who are developing a device powered by Nvidia's Tegra processor (which is planned for the upcoming Zune HD). Nvidia's Tegra is capable of playing high definition content (720p), and supposedly will play console-quality games with intense graphics.

While Samsung did not specify the type of device currently in development, it's speculated that it will be a handset for AT&T or T-Mobile, and retail for $200 when it becomes available in Q4 2009, as mentioned in an interview with Nvidia.

Earlier today news surrounding Nvidia's Tegra-powered Firefly netbook surfaced, reporting that the device is scheduled to hit retail shelves this September. The netbook supposedly uses Windows CE, and also has Flash Lite, Acrobat Reader, and many other applications pre-installed.

Microsoft's upcoming Zune HD portable media player will also incorporate Nvidia's Tegra processor. The device is scheduled to hit the market this September.

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2205 07/25/2009 1:27 AM
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Enginerd 07/25/2009 2:02 AM
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2205 :
fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck


You have been reported.

geminireaper 07/25/2009 2:55 AM
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damn it..when is Verizon/Sprint gonna get some love. Verizon has the most customers so why go with a smaller company grr. Not to mention AT&Ts 3g was rated the slowest connection.

chinesemafia69 07/25/2009 3:17 AM
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Enginerd :
You have been reported.



lol....give it a rest...leave him alone..

fans 6 07/25/2009 3:27 AM
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WheelsOfConfusion 07/25/2009 5:11 AM
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Why would you use Windows CE on a netbook?

ProDigit80 07/25/2009 6:06 AM
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ok,a cellphone with 320x240 pix graphics?
If we're lucky it's going to have 640x480 pix and play old dos or Win 9x games!

XD_dued 07/25/2009 6:23 AM
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console quality graphics? Like SNES? XD. No seriously though, i wonder how big it will be, and how horrible the battery life is. I have my phone for phone things, and everything else for the stuff they're meant to do.

neon neophyte 07/25/2009 1:44 PM
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tegra is supposed to have kickass battery life. especially compared to ANY x86 device.

im psyched, i want the devices out now. tho i also want them working. so maybe i can wait a little longer.

Rab1d-BDGR 07/25/2009 3:05 PM
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Apparently the Tegra 650 is going to support 1080p, even better than the 720 in the article. I'm not exactly sure why you would want that in a mobile device though. I think I'd want something a little more powerful in my netbook; today they're only good for web browsing but by "tomorrow" they could have a much more diverse role...

bk420 07/25/2009 4:35 PM
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tipoo 07/25/2009 5:57 PM
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The tegra device I'm most exited for is the Zune HD, that thing looks sweet.

LeJay 07/25/2009 7:02 PM
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bk420 :
too bad it's only 720p...this is dead in its tracks.



Had nvidia only asked a random 14 year old boy with e-penis envy before developing this product.

IzzyCraft 07/25/2009 8:46 PM
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It's a phone the screen is like 5 inches diag max you can easly do fine on 480 anamorphic. Also a 1080p phone screen that small would cost a shit ton of money.

tryceo 07/25/2009 9:11 PM
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Gaming on a 4 inch screen is goona be great... It's like I can see every pixel... Mmm... 640x400 is the new 1900x1200 for phones.

Honis 07/25/2009 9:16 PM
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I would guess, and this is only a guess, that the HD playback is for hooking the device up to TVs with 720 or better resolution.

The more power to nvidia. If they want to base a cpu off today's graphical needs as apposed to processing needs then I think they are going to do well. What was the biggest complaint about Vista, the slow user interface for 'normal' hardware at the release time. Whats the biggest selling point of the iPhone, the 'intuative' user interface. Consumers buy things for the interfaces these days and the abilities second (style may be first or at least tied with interface).

pocketdrummer 07/26/2009 7:11 AM
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I guess this was the wrong time for me to finally buy an iPhone, lol.

Oh well, I've had many smartphones in the past that have claimed to offer the world, and none have lived up to their claim... with the exception of the iPhone (so far... who knows in 6 months).

Anyway, I'll believe all the hype when I see it.

On another note, the people who are expecting 720p or even 1080P on their actual handset are idiots. That is only when you hook it into a TV or monitor that supports those resolutions. There's no way they're going to try to cram that many pixels into a little 5" screen.

AlexTheBlue 07/26/2009 10:05 PM
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pocketdrummer :
Anyway, I'll believe all the hype when I see it.On another note, the people who are expecting 720p or even 1080P on their actual handset are idiots. That is only when you hook it into a TV or monitor that supports those resolutions. There's no way they're going to try to cram that many pixels into a little 5" screen.

It also gives the phone the capability to playback 720P media without re-encoding. So even if its scaling it down to the screen's native resolution, the capability to play back 720P or even 1080p H.264 media is far from useless. For one it makes syncing your video library a whole lot less painful, and as these handheld devices get more powerful, hopefully the need for re-encoding will slowly vanish.

annymmo 07/27/2009 2:58 PM
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Honis :
I would guess, and this is only a guess, that the HD playback is for hooking the device up to TVs with 720 or better resolution.The more power to nvidia. If they want to base a cpu off today's graphical needs as apposed to processing needs then I think they are going to do well. What was the biggest complaint about Vista, the slow user interface for 'normal' hardware at the release time. Whats the biggest selling point of the iPhone, the 'intuative' user interface. Consumers buy things for the interfaces these days and the abilities second (style may be first or at least tied with interface).



The hooking to TV's would be sweet.

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