The Texas Instruments OMAP 4 Blaze is one of the most mind blowing prototypes on display here at Mobile World Congress. While its lower spec system-on-a-chip cousin is destined for your next Android phone, this chunkier rig packs a lot more punch: it can run Android on one screen, stream TV on another, and just for a laugh, throw another video out of a projector at the same time too!
So here’s the deal: Texas Instruments just dropped a new system-on-a-chip, called, OMAP4, but to give us consumers a better idea of what it can do, it’s bunged it in this huge remote control cum swim float, called the Texas Instruments OMAP 4 Blaze. And we like what it does: it can record and playback 1080p HD video, and even process 20 megapixel images, should regular compact camera sensors reach that stage. Pop the right port in there too, and it can output HD, steroscopic 3D video too, and Texas Instruments has also shoved in gesture recognition too so you might not even need that keypad.
The Texas Instruments OMAP 4 Blaze runs Android but can support other mobile operating systems too, and we find the idea of it powering two separate images intriguing. Why should smartphones just stick to one screen, when you could have one on the front and one on the back?
Texas Instruments OMAP 3630 Android prototype hands-on!
The Texas Instruments OMAP 4 Blaze is a development platform for eager companies, so you won’t be seeing this particular gizmo on the market anytime soon, though given its size we’re not quite sure where we’d keep it for now. Let’s hope though that some of the lucky recipients can shrink things down a bit though: if it can, we’re sold.
Out TBC | £TBC | Texas Instruments
