Palm Pre teardown and analysis
There are some pretty interesting things that popped up on the Pre’s PCB’s. This is the first production device we’ve seen on the OMAP3 (Open Media Applications Processor) platform. OMAP3 is powered by the 600MHZ ARM Cortex A8, PowerVR SGX 530 (GPU), 430MHz C64x, DSP and ISP (Image Signal Processor) and was clearly designed to pack a punch – Dr. Wreck thinks we’re going to see this processor popping up in future netbook endeavours.
On the connections side we see the usual wifi/bluetooth combo going to Marvell and CSR with the W8686 and 63823 respectively. We also see the BaseBand win going to Qualcomm with the heavily integrated MSM6801A platform. The OMAP3 PMIC comes loaded with a USB tranceiver and Audio codec which even further reduces the overall board density of this device. We’re not fully sure – but it looks as if the Pre’s cool new multi-touch Touch Screen Controller win went to Cypress Semiconductor with the CP6944BA device.
The device packs a 1150mAh battery – just like the iPhone 3G.
I’ve had my Pre given that shortly right after release and am glad to discover (through this forum) that I can now set a ring tone on incoming text messages and can search as a result of e-mails and such. Now is there any hope for an upcoming launch through which I can research my calendar? Would make my career a lot less complicated, obtaining dates of last appointments. No other complaints, except that yesterday I used to be in and out of Sprint assistance (not unusual). I believe I had been roaming, and looked at my calendar. Every thing inside calendar was just one hour earlier than what I had input. The clock was a single hour early as nicely. I was frightened to death–then, as soon as we got back into Sprint assistance once again, anything was normalized. Has this happened to any individual else?? Searching forward to answers, but please recall, I’m no techie and speak English in lieu of technospeak.