nvidia makes graphic chip for cell phones

arshlevon

pretty cool, quake 3 on a cell phont at 1024X768.. do they even have a cellphone with that rez?

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=766

KDR_11k

How much power does it drain? Apparently enough to take down their server.

Hollowmind

Man, everything's getting 3d accelerators these days. Still that's kinda' cool.

Joao Sapiro

its a matter of time till game developing gets the same skill as movie one .. and we play half life 3 on a cell phone or on our watch...things are getting absorduly evolved.

Dravalen

Considering windows mobile 5.0 has managed DirectX it's not a too much of a strech to imagine we might be seeing this sooner than later. I kinda wonder how battery drain is going to be though.

hawken

great so now my cell phone will have a failed GPU too!

where do they put the fan?

CheapAlert

what happened to phones being a good phone

KDR_11k

Cheap: They reached that about five years ago, after that they had to find new selling points for making the prolls buy new phones every three months.

Fuse

well i dont exactly agree with that .. i think it's a natural evolution of mobile technology .. i do think that many of the features are in fact completely useless .. however things like bluetooth and camera are pretty useful things to have around ..

you cant exactly carry around your digital camera every time you go out .. and you need the flexibility of bluetooth if you have a laptop .. or need a wireless headset..

i am all for functionality but i just recently aquired a motorola ROKR, and it serves it's purpose well, it's gui is customizable, it has bluetooth, got a 512mb memory card to store photos and mp3's and a 0.3 mp camera with a flash ..

now i dont own an ipod and my camera is pretty bulky of a thing so this mobile phone really brings the best of all 3 worlds, without sacrificing ergonomics and communication quality..

i only buy a new phone every 2-3 years

hawken

I'm in the market for a new phone, and I've narrowed it down to one model on vodafone. All my mates are on vodafone so the free airtime contract is a really good deal, talk forever for free!

The model I'm getting had to be cabable of several things:

QR code input
3G
3.2 megapixel camera
Flash Player
Java 3d
Bluetooth.
sd card / mp3 playback

there was a similar model for 0yen but without the QR code thing. The other models in vodafones line up can't run flash.

ebagg

Unless my phone can walk my dog or change TV channels, or something else extremely useful, I don't see the point in having anything more than a phone to call people. Then again I hit my fiance with a club and drag her back to my cave by her hair, sooooo.....