Palm Pixi’s Processing Muscle Outed by Qualcomm

Chuong Nguyen | September 14, 2009 7:05 PM

While Palm still hasn’t said much about the internals of the gorgeous Palm Pixi, a beautiful replacement to the Palm OS Centro to appear alongside the webOS Palm Pre, Qualcomm, the maker of the chipset inside the Pixi, has disclosed some fascinating details about the guts of the handset.

According to Engadget Mobile: The big news there is that the chipset packs two ARM cores on a single chip, including one dedicated 600MHz applications processor, and a separate 400MHz modem processor to offload some of the heavy lifting. Otherwise, the phone is said to pack a 200MHz, OpenGL 2.0-supporting GPU for some decent gaming capabilities, and a 320MHz application DSP to handle multimedia on the device, including full 30 fps WVGA video encoding and decoding.

It looks like the Pixi, despite its classification as a less expensive device when compared to the Pre, will be a very capable handheld.

Also, the Pixi is said to appear at New York Fashion Week, an event for fashion-conscious technophiles. Micrososft also unveiled the designer themes for Windows Mobile 6.5, which will launch alongside the OS and Marketplace for Mobile on October 6, 2009.

If you’re at Fashion Week in New York City, be sure to find Palm and check out the Pixi.

(via: Engadget Mobile)

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