Nvidia wins Razr and Walkman mobile phone designs

IN NVIDIA'S last conference call, CEO Jensen Huang announced that Nvidia won some important mobile phone designs. Nvidia managed to get into new 3G Motorola V3X and it scored a win with the very significant Sony Ericsson W900i design. Both phones feature Nvidia's latest GoForce 3D 4800 chip.

The chip features 1280KB of embedded memory and supports up to 3 Mpix cameras. It's up to vendors to decide how many megapixels they want to implement. It usually goes 1.3 Mpix in the first design, then 2.0 Mpix in the second design and next year will get you 3Mpix in your phone.

Both phones are expected before Yule in the stores but that's up to mobile operators to decide. If you choose W900i or Razr V3X you can be sure that you are getting Nvidia marchitecture inside of those phones. Its "Npower" is supposed to save your battery life but Nvidia can only guarantee good battery life for multimedia as that's what its chips take care of. Multimedia covers 3D gaming, and 2D interfaces.

Last year, Nvidia won two Motorola 3G phone designs an E1000 and V980 and it seems that Motorola is happy with Nvidia in mobile as it continued to use its chips.

Sony Ericsson chose Nvidia as it obviously likes its mobile design and we are sure that this phone can put Nvidia Shader core for mobiles to good use. GoForce 3D 4800 can support 640x480 resolution it can decode and encode Jpeg, encode and decode Mpeg 4, supports early Z, multi texturing and Programmable pixel Shader and do some other nice stuff. Don't forget 3 Mpix camera support. This actually means that you will be able to play some nice looking games and to do some serious video on any of these phones.

You can check more about those phones below but we have to say well done Nvidia. µ

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Sony Ericsson W900i
Motorola V3x 3G