The mobile phone continues to revolutionize our everyday lives. It has transformed from a simple voice communicator to a personal multifunction, multimedia device. With the integration of new features, the ordinary phone is evolving into the Mobile Internet Device (MID). Consumers have become accustomed to experiencing high-quality video and full-page Web browsing at home. Increasingly handset manufactures are looking for ways to provide this same content experience on handset, taking advantage of the network bandwidth to deliver an optimized mobile web browsing experience.

Mobile technologies from Texas Instruments are delivering enhanced web browsing capabilities today – making it possible for consumers to view content in full-screen mode and enjoy content in any format on the Smartphone and Mobile Internet Device (MID) markets with a complete hardware and software platform. Leveraging the company’s experience in the mobile market, TI’s ARM™ Cortex A8-based OMAP™ 3 processors such as the OMAP3440 address the performance and power needs of the emerging MID market today. In addition, OMAP 3 processors today deliver exceptional multimedia features and a full Web browsing experience with large, vibrant displays. TI’s broad technology portfolio with the OMAP platform and mobile connectivity solutions, along with the OMAP Developer Network, elevate emerging Web 2.0 applications that were once confined to the PC domain into the more pervasive and ubiquitous mobile environment.

MID Resources:

Mobile Internet Device Blog - NEW! Join us as we discuss relevant topics about TI's Mobile Internet Devices. Seshu Madhavapeddy, General Manager, Mobile Internet Devices, talks about why Mobile Internet Devices are so important to TI. - Watch this video now MID Market Overview Presentation (780 KB) 26 June 2008 Download OMAPTM 3 Architecture from TI for MID (409 KB) 24 Aug 2008 Download MID Architecture Comparison Presentation (1 MB) 8 August 2008 Download

Specifications

• Integrated platform using industry leading OMAP 2 or OMAP 3 platform architectures
• No compromise Web browsing that:
  • Seamlessly renders entire page
  • Decodes all multimedia and imaging content
• Choice of industry-standard mobile Web browser engines (e.g. Mozilla Firefox, Opera, WebKit, Internet Explorer, NetFront, etc)
• OMAP 3 architecture offers
  • Industry's first Superscalar ARM Cortex-A8 RISC core with 3x improvement in performance
  • Integrated Imaging + Video + Audio accelerator (IVA 2 +) that supports multi-standard (MPEG4, WMV, Real, H.263, H.264, JPEG) encode/decode at D1 (720 x 480 pixels) 30 fps
  • Integrated Image Signal Processor (ISP) for faster and higher quality image capture
  • Flexible display drive support
  • Combines mobile entertainment with high performance productivity applications
• Mobile Internet Devices will be an extension or evolution of smartphones
• No compromise Web browsing that:
  • Seamlessly renders entire page
  • Decodes all multimedia content including support for Flash
• Modem agnostic. OMAP interfaces to a wide variety of modems (e.g. 2.5G, 3G, WiMax, etc)
• Seamless connectivity to Bluetooth, WLAN and GPS
• 1st generation MIDs will support Linux and Windows Mobile offering customers a choice of applications and user interfaces
• Software reuse across OMAP 2 and OMAP 3 platforms
• Drive single-touch and multi-touch LCD screens with display resolution of WVGA (854 x 480) that make it possible to display web pages in full-page width
• Seamless connectivity to a wide variety of external memory (e.g. volatile memory, non-volatile memory, hard-disk drive, etc)
• Standard I/O connectivity of keyboard and mouse
• Software power management framework that leverages external power management device

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