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Rumors: The CPU of the Nokia N9

Ausgestellt am 20. Januar 2011, vom in Technology.

So we all know that Nokia is working on something big and we can be pretty sure that is has something to do with the Nokia N9, an unannounced but still for sure coming next generation handset, running MeeGo.

Today Engadget spread the rumor that the Nokia N9 will run on an Intel Atom platform. If you think about the fact that MeeGo is half Moblin which is from Intel, this rumor doesn’t sound so strange.
But still, Atom in a phone? Atoms don’t even see to be power efficient enough to run in tablets, and they have more space for batteries.

Another brand new rumor comes from @addiermedina who twittered that the N9 will use an Broadcom BCM2763 Multimedia Processor.

All these rumors are very surprising for me, because I was very sure that the Nokia N9 platform was already semi-announced. In my opinion it will run on the ST Ericsson U8500 platform. An ARM Cortex-A9 dual-core at 1.2 Ghz supportet by the MALI 400 GPU. Where I’ve heard that? Well, I saw this video, posted by Charbax on ARMdevices.net:

The man from ST Ericsson says the most important stuff at the end: Nokia is an official partner who will release products with the U8500 and the first handsets will be out in H1 of 2011. Which is now.
Of course, there is the possibility that the U8500 will not be used in the N9, as he says, it will work with Symbian as well and tablets would be possible, too. But how likely is a jump from ARM11 to ARM Cortex-A9-Dualcore in Symbian, within six months? I am sure a lot of customers would be a little bit upset…
And a Nokia tablet? Nothing is impossible, but ST Erricson seems to see the U8500 as smartphone platform first, everything else second. So maybe, but that doesn’t mean that the N9 can’t use it, too.

Another hint towards the U8500 in the N9 brings the Linaro Wiki: A fast search for “N900″ brings up a lot of hits. Linaro, an open source company which focuses on middleware and low level software, is funded by ST Erricson but not by Broadcom or Intel.

We will know more in February, that is almost sure.

 
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  • Anonymous

    http://twitter.com/#!/simonlr says it does not have Atom, he was rumoured to have an N9 in possession a few months back.

  • Anonymous

    That’s what I thought…
    But I also read somewhere that the first generation of N9 will not come out, because it’s ready since summer and not cutting edge anymore.

    Thx for the comment, will follow simonlr. & We will see :)

  • Anonymous

    I agree this seems like the most rational direction based on everything I’ve read/heard over the past 12mth.
    But Nokia srsly needs to hurry the frack up and give us more detail on what’s happening….

  • http://twitter.com/thezymo zymo

    he didn’t say that nokia is going to release a device based on u8500 in H1 2011. he just said that there will be devices in h1 2011 and nokia is one of the partners.

  • Anonymous

    True. “Nokia is an official partner who will release products with the U8500 and the first handsets will be out in H1 of 2011.”

    The “and” connects Nokia to the the first handsets in 2011/H1. He isn’t saying this, but I think (hope) it is likely. But you are right, these nebulosities are the reasons why the post title starts with “Rumors” and not with “Fact”.

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