Android article by Anand on Engadget

[pm]

I was reading Engadget today during lunch and I noticed a very well written article about the CPU used in Android phone sand I looked up to see the author was Anand Shimpi. I had no idea that Anand wrote for anything other than Anandtech and CPU magazine.

In any case, regardless of the author, it's a very nice overview piece on the silicon behind the handsets of various android phones .

http://www.engadget.com/2009/1...ilicon-behind-android/

It talks about the CPU in the Motorola Cliq, Samsung Galaxy, HTC Tattoo, HTC Hero, HTC Magic, and HTC Dream, and talks about where CPU's for handsets are headed.

In either case, we find ourselves in a sea of 528MHz ARM11-based Android phones because Android is still in its infancy and keeping costs low forces us into the open arms (pun) of a slower microprocessor.

 

[Deeko]

Interesting read, I didn't know he wrote for them either. I've actually wondered about why all the Android phones use that processor, he answered that question fairly quickly:

Until recently, running Android on other SoCs required a bit of legwork, but Android 1.6 adds in native support for non-Qualcomm processors.

I didn't know that, now I do. And good to know that with Donut we've got the framework for other processors. Thanks, Anand!

 

[Krazy4Real]

Very interesting article.

 

[Ika]

Core Values is our new monthly column from Anand Shimpi, Editor-in-chief of AnandTech. With over a decade of experience poring over the latest in chip developments, he's here to explain how things work and why our tech is the way it is.

 

[erwos]

It's a smart move to get Anandtech some more exposure.

 

[shortylickens]

Core Values: The silicon behind Android
by Anand Shimpi posted Oct 14th 2009 at 3:30PM

Core Values is our new monthly column from Anand Shimpi, Editor-in-chief of AnandTech. With over a decade of experience poring over the latest in chip developments, he's here to explain how things work and why our tech is the way it is.

Sounds to me like Anand has been writing since October 14th of this year.

Any other questions?

Seriously though, this is good stuff.