14 DAY TRIAL // Texas Instruments (TI) and LG Electronics (LGE) announced that LGE has chosen TI's OMAP-Vox platform for a new series of EDGE handsets. [ADMIN=1]The OMAP-Vox platform is a family of integrated, high-performance application and communication processors designed to enable manufacturers to deliver multimedia applications to the mass market. The first LGE handsets to leverage TI's OMAP-Vox platform will be the LG240 for Canada available in August 2006, and the ME240 for South America available in September 2006. The handsets will incorporate TI's OMAPV1030 chipset to provide multimedia capabilities coupled with EDGE functionality.
The OMAPV1030 solution delivers advanced capabilities such as advanced video capture, playback and streaming; digital still camera features; color LCD and interactive 2D/3D gaming. The solution is based on the OMAP1710 architecture and runs both GSM/GPRS/EDGE modem and applications processing on a single OMAP core. This architecture serves as the foundation for the scalable OMAP-Vox hardware architecture and is designed to easily extend from 2.5G to 3G and beyond.
"Cool multimedia applications once reserved only for high-end smartphones are now migrating to more affordable feature phones," said Alain Mutricy, vice president, cellular systems for Texas Instruments. "TI's OMAP-Vox platform is enabling manufacturers such as LGE to deliver this through extensive modem and applications software re-use. TI's WCDMA solutions leverage the OMAPV1030, which will save LGE time and development costs as it migrates from EDGE to WCDMA."