Flashback: remembering the awesome devices powered by TI OMAP chips
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- Anonymous
- rJX
- 10 Apr 2022
Wow, that was the great period to be a smartphone enthusiast
- The Flip
- IbE
- 10 Apr 2022
Galaxy Nexus didn't age well with it.
My favorite chipset is still the Snapdragon 800 or 801. But I think the maligned 888 from last year surpassed it. Yeah, the throttling is real but it still plays GameCube and Wii emulation the best over any thing with Mali in it.
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- TsepzGP
- rup
- 10 Apr 2022
There really is no shortage of TI OMAP based phones that I wanted, from the Nokia N91-8GB, N93, N95, E90, the Maemo/MeeGo based N900, to the Motorola Z8 and Z10.
Then there is the Palm Pre, Samsung i8510 Innov8, i8910 OmniaHD, SE Satio, Motorola Droid X (though it was limited to Verizon) and Motorola Droid/Milestone.
Those OMAP chips were pretty efficient yet powerful versus the Qualcomm Snapdragons of the time. The GPUs in the OMAP chips were particularly good up until around 2009/2010. When Qualcomm introduced the S2, it seems TI began losing traction as Qualcomm were catching up quickly on efficiency and graphics, I think when Qualcomm dropped the Snapdragon 800 that’s when they absolutely obliterated every other android chip.
Those TI OMAP devices are unforgettable though, they really pushed the envelope.
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- Anonymous
- IJK
- 10 Apr 2022
travis999, 10 Apr 2022Still got a working samsung 8910i. You have to remember th... moreMe too. One of my many examples of how bogus the all oleds just burn crap is
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- Cloete
- FjH
- 10 Apr 2022
Anonymous, 10 Apr 2022Nokia should make phones again. Nokia killed themselves with low amounts of ram on devices. I had a n97 and with 32gb storage it could hold a ton of photos but didn't have the ram to load your gallery. I also had the n9 which failed because it didn't support WhatsApp which just started becoming popular, other than that it was a good phone for the short time I used it.
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- k0R
- 10 Apr 2022
Anonymous, 10 Apr 2022Nokia should make phones again. They still do lol
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- Panos
- 4XV
- 10 Apr 2022
Phones back then bad their own personality and design.
Now im looking at the smartphone industry and it seems like every phone is a copy paste of another.
Seems like customers and companies are happy with a touchscreen design and evolution needs to stop.
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- Andri
- Me$
- 10 Apr 2022
Every flagship is a beast for its time. Difference is today's flagship can do hundreds, thousands of times more things than the one from ten years ago.
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- Andri
- Me$
- 10 Apr 2022
Livius, 10 Apr 2022What amazing phones those have been. I had most of those re... moreMy s22 ultra is so much more amazing than your s5. Trust me😂😂
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- Andri
- Me$
- 10 Apr 2022
Livius, 10 Apr 2022What amazing phones those have been. I had most of those re... moreThose were phones. Today you've got the most sophisticated computers in your pocket, with apps for everything and anything, proper professional cameras, GPS, dax and ready for pc interfaces, etc etc. We've never had it better. It's like longing for a black and white TV box or a Walkman. Nostalgia often clouds reality. I repeat, we've never had it better,by a long shot.
- Livius
- Lax
- 10 Apr 2022
What amazing phones those have been. I had most of those remembered in this article. It was back when you trully had a choice starting with OS to different designs up until to a point. The phones were not priced stupid high like today and all of them were flagships of their time. I still have a Samsung Note 4 and S5 in their original boxes. Loved them very much.
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- Anonymous
- 8Kf
- 10 Apr 2022
Better than exynos 2200
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- Void Bot
- X3c
- 10 Apr 2022
I owned both Nokia N9 and Nokia N810 as a kid. Both were awesome devices! such nostolgia.
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- DaFink
- raN
- 10 Apr 2022
Ah the Galaxy Nexus, now that takes me back. Only had one a couple of months, but it was a great device.
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- travis999
- StU
- 10 Apr 2022
Still got a working samsung 8910i.
You have to remember that although ti could run lots of os's, over a series of chips, the first snapdragon 1 ghz, in the HTC HD2 could run them all, as far as im aware, everything but ios was got to run on that little chip, al the way up to windows XP, which, with the right t-mobile verion of the htc hd2, with double the memory,and a properly edited rom of XP(embeded) and it would ok, slowly, but it ran, with an exterior powered usb networking hub, you could hook anything you needed.
If HTC had listened to people and buikt an hd3 and then an hd4, all in same vein as hd2, totally unlockable and capable hardware, proper developers phone, then they might not find themselves in such precarious circumstancess they do now, almost back to their xda, pre HTC days.
If they tried an htc hd3 now, i think they would be suprised at how many they shift, if done properly, but it wont happen, sadly..
Still my favourite phone, yet, the legendary htc hd2..
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- Anonymous
- 8Kf
- 10 Apr 2022
Nokia should make phones again.
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- Anonymous
- U@6
- 10 Apr 2022
Interesting article
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- Anonymous
- t7x
- 10 Apr 2022
They just fade away and no one remembers. That's how fast mobile chipset develops and it seems they failed to catch up or something.
Anyway I hope MEDIATEK and QUALCOM keep pushing each other, good for consumer. I'm rooting as well to UNISOC to push the lower tier segments more. EXYNOS, let's just pray for them keep alive in more years and see the fruit from AMD.
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- Shroom smoker
- L1q
- 10 Apr 2022
Pumpino, 10 Apr 2022I remember getting the Galaxy Nexus and wanting to return i... moreI had a Galaxy Note edge with snapdragon 805. It was a beast back in the day.
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- Shroom smoker
- L1q
- 10 Apr 2022
Poco F4 to release with snaodragon 870, Poco F4 Pro with Dimensity 9000 and Poco F4 GT with snapdragon 8 gen 1 (rumoured)