Wandering Data

Two or three years ago, the state of the art CPU for mobile handsets was the PXA270, an XScale ARM processor originally from Intel and then sold to Marvell. It chugged along at 625MHz or so. Nowadays, we are far from that. Today’s cutting edge phones and mobile devices use… oh right, the same chip. [...]

I have been puzzled by the reports of Netbook manufacturers taking an interest in Android as an OS. Why would you use a phone OS for a Netbook, I wondered, when you have so many real Linux alternatives available? Research company Ovum says that Android may have a place because Netbooks should be thought of [...]

Some time ago I posted about whether mobile chips of the future would be RISC or CISC architecture. ARM or Intel x86? Now it’s got personal. Some Intel execs took a swing at ARM chips the other day. Unfortunately for them, the ARM chips they swung at were inside iPhones. While Apple hasn’t said anything [...]

Things I want. A SanDisk 16GB micro SD card. A phone with a Casio 960 by 540 display (2″ diagonal) Donations accepted.

I know even less about hardware than I do about other aspects of computing, so it’s good that people like Jon Stokes of ars technica post things to help me understand what’s going on. Recently Moore’s Law seems to have taken a breather in mobile devices. Buy a heavy-duty handheld two years ago and you [...]