14 DAY TRIAL // Everyone likes to see the results of the mobile phone manufacturers at play. Those results are called concepts and, being one of the latest arrivals on the mobile market, Nvidia couldn't have come clean without preparing its own concept phone.
That device is pictured in the attached photo and, although some people have bought it and even begun calling it names (Quark that is), I know Nvidia won't begin making phones for some time.
They just took their first step on the market and being a company known for its high quality graphic solution, it's hard to believe (at least for me) they will give up years and years of experience in this domain (and probably loosing the chance to get a higher statute on this market and a lot of money with that) just to manufacture phones.
If you take a little moment to think about it, I'm sure you'll draw the same conclusion as I did: if Nvidia makes chips for mobile phones and they will be one of the top 3 chipset manufacturing companies in this field (probably the first as we know them) why would they start making cellphones if they will already be present in most handsets being sold worldwide?
It doesn't make sense to believe that concept will come true so, I'm sorry to inform you, this is only a concept and it will most probably remain this way.
By the way, this is the rendering work of Quanta and has been made just to demonstrate Nvidia's newly released GoForce 6100 multimedia applications processor, so it's not a cellphone waiting to be released but only a proof of a concept.
Yes they have build a prototype and yes they are showing it at 3GSM, but it is just a prototype and they don't have any intention of going big with it.
This prototype runs a Chronos OpenKODE 1.0 and came out together with an approximate launch date on cellphones for the processor it is demonstrating: somewhere between the end of 2007 and the beginning of 2008.