[Arm-netbook] GSM/GPRS and 3G EOMA-68 Cards

[luke.leighton]

On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Enrico <ebutera at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 2:57 PM, luke.leighton <luke.leighton at gmail.com> wrote:
>> i thought i'd raise this as a specific topic, because i just
>> encountered a company that has asked us for help in selling their
>> Mediatek-based MTK625x 300mhz ARM9 phones (priced at $13 and  $25).
>> these are only GSM/GPRS Quad-band but they also have a $65 phone with
>> an MSM7227a, for which the linux kernel source code already exists:
>>    https://github.com/omegamoon/huawei-g300-u8815-msm7227a
>>
>> my question is therefore would it be of interest to people to have an
>> EOMA-68 3G CPU Card?
>
> Very very much if the cpu has enough processing power/coprocessor to
> do audio/video encoding (1080p).

 http://micdigi.com/2012/08/the-mtk65756577-dual-core-solution/

 you're in luck!  the MTK6575 (dual core arm cortex 1gz) apparently
can do 1080p and has HDMI output.  and this little company is
apparently working on a phone that uses it.

 l.