symbian OS version.... haha

I dont know if its me or the article wasn't that clear but... what the heck is it?

It's an entire AppleTV on a chip (well, storage and memory notwithstanding). But it probably costs $30 in total. Expect to see <$100 AppleTV competitors later this year with fancier interfaces, more features and generally all round better.

Why use an ARM11 MPCore unless they're using multiple cores? That would make this aspect interesting in my opinion.

So when are the PDA's coming out equipped with this chip ?

10 hour battery life? while its off maybe. with that kind of horsepower, i highly doubt that the battery life would last more than 1-2 hours max. a camera should be thrown in too!

720p on a phone? what's the point?

Maybe for use on the Apple iGame?

nVidia is simply trying to Godzilla the video market!! This is great news for all of us mobile geeks but nVidia needs to focus on making some stable x64 vista drivers that have ALL the features enabled... so irritating that I can't enable FSAA on my 8800 ultra SLi setup.... !!

Mojo

Man, and I just got blackberry. :(

Plays video up to 10 hours? On what? A coin-cell or a Americanum cell?

With that said, being an embedded developer, this is great stuff. Customers are always demanding more for less and smaller, and this part seems to have a niche which is very popular right now: HD video in a compact form. To have that support in a low power chip is great news. I am working with a few applications that a part like this would cause a re-design using this chip instead, if were out any sooner than Q2. Power requirements being the limiting factor. I'm sure I will be seeing these devices around here at work.

-LS

i'd like to see the android guys do something with that hardware.

and is that a mini-DVI port to the right of the headphone jack?

It looks like it would make a decent HTPC with a HDD and remote attached to that USB port.

Now *that* is neat. Get it running linux prz. I'm done with windows.